[compiz] Read commandline defaults from a file?

[David Reveman]

On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 10:42 +0200, dragoran wrote:
> Right now compiz has hardcoded defaults for command line options like 
> direct vs indirect rendering etc.
> Because most users use scripts like gnome-wm to start compiz its not 
> that easy for them to change this options. My solution would be to have 
> a file (~/.compizrc) where the default values are saved. So that compiz 
> checks for the file first and pic up this values. If no file is found it 
> fails back to the hardcoded one.
> Would this cause any problems? If not I can implement it and send patches.

We should just make all these command line options real options with
metadata attached to them. That way you can easily patch the metadata
files to change the default values for them or override them by putting
you're own metadata files in ~/.compiz.

-David