proposal for extending XSETTINGS registry keys

[Matthias Clasen]

On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 00:17 +0200, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 March 2007 21:07 +0100, Avi Alkalay wrote:
> > Elektra can easily be the infrastructure for storing this keys, with the
> > benefit of not being just desktop-oriented, but cross-system oriented.
> 
> I think (could be wrong) the main idea of XSETTINGS is that they are supposed 
> to be available through X11, thus being available to application on remote 
> machines which connect to the client's Xserver.
> 
> The location where the XSETTINGS manager stores the values is an 
> implementation detail.
> 

Yes, exactly. The gnome incarnation of an xsettings manager uses gconf
to store the values, but that is an implementation detail. Bringing 
configuration systems like Elektra into this discussion is just a
distraction.