A draft for a standard for desktop configuration

[Philip Van Hoof]

On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 14:08 -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote:

> I've been sort of following the development of this draft.  It looks like it
> would be relatively easy to implement the protocol using UniConf's existing
> DBus code as a base.  Since UniConf's DBus support mostly just exists for
> demonstration purposes at the moment, we'd be happy to accept any patches
> make it support attempts at a more concrete and interoperable standard.  No
> standard is much use until there's an implementation, and I think you'll
> find writing an implementation from scratch is much harder than basing it on
> the existing UniConf infrastructure (file storage, caching, plugins,
> existing DBus code, etc).
> 
> UniConf's API doesn't support schema enforcement, but that doesn't seem to
> be a problem; the schemas and the protocol appear to be completely different
> things in this design.  And Havoc would say it's really a client-side issue
> anyway.

Yes. I'd be thrilled to see that implementation happen. If somebody is
interested to create this frontend for UniConf, I'd be happy to assist
and/or cooperate if specific adjustments to the proposed specification
are required. I'm even willing to give people an account on my CVS
repository and let them make significant decisions.

So far I haven't decided about the copyrights of the document. I'm
planning to make this document as available as possible. That includes
usage for both extremely commercial as opensource AND free software
softwares. So I guess for that I would have to copyright it as public
domain. But suggestions are welcome (I don't care at all about the
copyright, I do care about making this standard happen).


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