Menu Spec: including files & absolute paths

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Thursday 22 July 2004 05:05, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 05:40, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > To solve this issue in a backwards compatible way I suggest to add an
> > argument to the <MergeFile> element that indicates that if the file that
> > contains the element is a file relative to
> > $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS the same file further up the search
> > path should be merged instead of the file that is specified in the
> > <MergeFile> element. I propose to call this argument "parent".
>
> Something like "substitute_basedirs" seems clearer to me, if I
> understand it properly...

Euhm... I'm not sure I understand what you mean with "substitute basedirs". 

I see the whole system comparable to a C++ class hierarchy, where you have a 
set of files at the system level comparable to a base class, with each file 
comparable to a virtual method that can be overridden in another of the 
$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS ( those would be subclasses). The idea of this attribute is 
to include/merge the same file at the next level, which is comparable to a 
virtual method calling the virtual method in its parent class, hence the idea 
of "parent".

I fully agree that this name is open for improvement, e.g. having a verb in 
there might make it a bit clearer, I just don't see how "substitute basedirs" 
fits in there :-}

Cheers,
Waldo
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