On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 11:29:34AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, magenta wrote: > > > > User preferences are an entirely different matter. I totally agree that > > the user should be able to override default behaviors, but environment > > variables are such a crappy way of doing this. > > Why? Environment variables are in many ways more powerful than config > files, and can be equally easily edited (think of your ".bashrc" as the > config file for environment variables).
I would tend to disagree in this case. With most things, there is a single, well defined set of env vars that control the thing. However, we're going to end up with a set that is different from driver to driver and from driver version to driver version. It would be very easy to provide a way for a tool to query a driver to find out what its set of knobs and buttons is. This way the tuning tool could adapt to each different driver automagically. At least one company (PowerVR) ships a driver that uses a config file with per-application settings. I also know of at least one IHV that has complained that the lack of such a mechanism is one of DRI / XFree86's weaknesses. It is likely that other IHVs will begin to support such config files in the future. At that level, I think it makes sense for the open source community to *lead* the way instead of following along after everyone else has been there, done that. The only env var that I can see having a long-term purpose is one to set the name of the config file to use. :) I think that would provide the same functionality to automated things that env vars currently provide. -- Smile! http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990315.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Visual Studio.NET comprehensive development tool, built to increase your productivity. Try a free online hosted session at: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?micr0003en _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
