A draft for a standard for desktop configuration

[Waldo Bastian]

On Tuesday 13 September 2005 10:01, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> This basically means that the infrastructure is responsible for schema
> enforcement.
>
> What does that mean?
>
> o. It means that a desktop application, no matter how badly programmed,
>    can't cause a key to be written as a type other than the one
>    specified in the schema.
>
> o. It means that only the developer of the application (the installation
>    program or script) decided about that type.
>
> o. It means that any invalid "setting a key" attempt fails

The current proposal fails to meet these objectives at the moment because the 
typing is not complete. Only low level DBUS types are somewhat sufficiently 
defined, but not the higher level types such as "font" or "color".

Cheers,
Waldo
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