X configuration paradigm, and a proposal

[Xavier Bestel]

Le lun 08/11/2004 à 02:09, Avi Alkalay a écrit :
> > Why ? GConf doesn't depend on X.
> 
> GConf may not depend on X. But GConf has so many dependencies that to
> make X depend on GConf will break X cross-platform status: whenever
> you want to bring X, you'll have to bring also GConf, and Bonobo, OAF,
> GLib (that depends on X), etc.
> This is why I think it can't be GConf.

GLib depends only on libc. Orbit (needed for gconf's ipc mechanism) can
be replaced by d-bus (which is a freedesktop lib). So you can depend on
gconf, glib, d-bus, and libxml for the backend (but I think you can
avoid it). There are front-end tools for gconf that depend on all sorts
of libs, but no one forces you to bring all of gtk+ into X.
Now, I now the NIH syndrome is strong, and there are religious issues
with including glib in X. I just wanted to point that gconf exists, it
was made exactly for storing key/value pairs and it has interesting
features like automatic changes notification and pluggable backends (xml
file, xorg.conf parser ?), and is widely used.

	Xav