desktop neutral xsettings manager?

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Thu Apr 24 07:59:38 PDT 2008


On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:36:50AM -0400, Joe Mason wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Rodney Dawes <dobey.pwns at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  Sure we can. The only issue is that we need a cross-desktop
> >  configuration solution also. Otherwise, you're going to need to
> >  have the cross-desktop xsettings daemon read config values from
> >  various places, and magically try to merge them into one value.
> 
> Magically merging config values from various places is one of the main
> goals of UniConf: http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=UniConf

elektra is also trying to achieve something similar. UniConf says that
it subsumes elektra, but I guess that writing an elektra backend plugin 
to subsume uniconf shouldn't be that difficult either ;-)

http://elektra.g4ii.com/Overview_of_the_Elektra_Initiative

--
Pat


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