Re: proposal for extending XSETTINGS registry keys

2007-03-30 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 15:59 +0200, Stanislav Brabec wrote: Matthias Clasen wrote: Looking again at your list of Gtk/ XSettings, I notice that you missed a few: It can also include some settings from former environment variables. Net/Locale Or more specifically map LANGUAGES and all

Re: proposal for extending XSETTINGS registry keys

2007-03-30 Thread Stanislav Brabec
Matthias Clasen píše v Pá 30. 03. 2007 v 10:21 -0400: On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 15:59 +0200, Stanislav Brabec wrote: Matthias Clasen wrote: Looking again at your list of Gtk/ XSettings, I notice that you missed a few: It can also include some settings from former environment

Re: proposal for extending XSETTINGS registry keys

2007-03-29 Thread Frederic Crozat
Le jeudi 29 mars 2007 à 14:45 +0200, Marius Bugge Monsen a écrit : This is not just about having non-Gtk+ application integrating with the GNOME desktop. It should also work the other way around. If KDE should adopt XSETTINGS, it would be nice if Gtk+ applications looks and behaves like the

Re: proposal for extending XSETTINGS registry keys

2007-03-29 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 14:45 +0200, Marius Bugge Monsen wrote: If we are only talking about the XSETTINGS registry keys, from my perspective it is not. :) I'll try to clarify: Toolkits other than Gtk+ should not have to care about the Gtk/ keys. They should only have to care about the Net/

Re: proposal for extending XSETTINGS registry keys

2007-03-29 Thread Marius Bugge Monsen
On Thursday 29 March 2007 16:33, you wrote: On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 14:45 +0200, Marius Bugge Monsen wrote: If we are only talking about the XSETTINGS registry keys, from my perspective it is not. :) I'll try to clarify: Toolkits other than Gtk+ should not have to care about the Gtk/ keys.

Re: proposal for extending XSETTINGS registry keys

2007-03-28 Thread Marius Bugge Monsen
On Wednesday 28 March 2007 17:39, you wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 16:46 +0200, Marius Bugge Monsen wrote: Hi all, At the Desktop Architects Meeting 3, beginning of December last year, Waldo asked me if I could write a proposal for extending the XSETTINGS registry keys. I'm not sure

Re: proposal for extending XSETTINGS registry keys

2007-03-28 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 18:58 +0200, Marius Bugge Monsen wrote: On Wednesday 28 March 2007 17:39, you wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 16:46 +0200, Marius Bugge Monsen wrote: Hi all, At the Desktop Architects Meeting 3, beginning of December last year, Waldo asked me if I could write a

Re: proposal for extending XSETTINGS registry keys

2007-03-28 Thread Avi Alkalay
Elektra can easily be the infrastructure for storing this keys, with the benefit of not being just desktop-oriented, but cross-system oriented. So KConfig and GConf will have (actually have already) an Elektra backend and there is no need to change applications.

Re: proposal for extending XSETTINGS registry keys

2007-03-28 Thread Thiago Macieira
Avi Alkalay wrote: So KConfig and GConf will have (actually have already) an Elektra backend and there is no need to change applications. Avi, In this case, Marius was thinking of sharing that data down to the toolkit level. KConfig, for instance, is a KDE class, so it cannot be used from Qt.

Re: proposal for extending XSETTINGS registry keys

2007-03-28 Thread Avi Alkalay
The QT classes for this purpose can also be implemented on top of Elektra's methods. Check this diagram: http://www.libelektra.org/presentation/img46.html Elektra was written in pure C (but it is object oriented in design) and does not depend on any other libraries. This guarantees cross

Re: proposal for extending XSETTINGS registry keys

2007-03-28 Thread 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