[Portland] Fwd: [Desktop_architects] Querying desktop settings like default browser and proxy configuration

[Dan Kegel]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:15 PM, PCMan<pcman.tw at gmail.com> wrote:
> Besides, is it possible to write a freedesktop.org spec to store those
> settings in a common place rather than having this kind of wrapper?
> It's not about common configuration system, which was not accepted in the past.
> Default browser and proxy settings only contains several smiple
> strings and a simple ini file is quite suitable for storing this small
> amount of data.

I think you just described a common configuration system.  Except
you forgot the hard part: getting kde and gnome to use it.

> Is it really needed to create yet another complicated
> wrapper script for this?

Unless we create a common configuration system, and convince
kde and gnome to use it, yes.  (Or it could be a complicated
wrapper library.)
- Dan