X configuration paradigm, and a proposal

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Hi ,

let me refere to a non technical aspect of elektra
<http://elektra.sourceforge.net>.

What does the Xorg developers say about the elektras GPL license?
Can vendors of proprearity software use elektra at all? Can they use
libkdb - the interface library to elektra?

In my case: an CMS needs to allow highly propriarity vendors accessing
colour configurations.

regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
                                + imaging development / panoramas
                                + color management
                                + email: ku.b at gmx.de
                                + CMS proposal <www.behrmann.name>



Am 07.11.04, 17:03 -0300 schrieb Avi Alkalay:

> Currently is not easy to configure an X server. You have to know the
> xorg.conf configuration file format, and know what to put there.
>
> So when you buy a new commodity video card, the manufacturer have to
> ask you to edit xorg.conf manually (when he asks...), instead of
> shipping together some program that makes the new configuration
> automatically. I think this happens because the manufacturer doesn't
> want to write an xorg.conf file parser and an editor to insert its
> textual piece in the global configuration file.
>
> Same for monitors, multi-monitor desktops, special mice, modules,
> screen resolutions (1024x768, 800x600) etc. Everything have to be done
> by hand, or entirely regenerated by some distro-specific script, which
> also makes you loose manually-edited stuff.
>
> The proposal is to upgrade the way X handles configuration (human
> readable xorg.conf) to some hierarchy of configuration atoms
> represented by key-value pairs. Something similar to GConf, but not
> GConf because this one is not available when X needs to read its
> configurations.
>
> A key-value pair paradigm will let a video device installer change
> preciselly only the configuration atoms vital to him. The same for a
> monitor, mouse, modules, filepaths, etc.
> And with time, this will make X way more easier to configure, and user-friendly.
>
> I'd like to hear comments about this.
>
> Regards,
> Avi
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Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Kai-Uwe Behrmann
                                + Bildprogrammierung / Panoramen
                                + Farbmanagement
                                + email: ku.b at gmx.de