Re: config file maintenance

2008-12-02 Thread Julien Danjou
At 1228229037 time_t, Lluis wrote: > I've been wanting for days to post some ideas to modularize customizability in > awesome. My proposal consists of two main ideas: That's a good idea, we probably missed so module to handle some common aspect that are widely used by many users. > To that extent

Re: config file maintenance

2008-12-02 Thread Lluis
Hi all! El Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 05:08:42PM +0100, Julien Danjou ens deleit� amb les seg�ents paraules: [...] > What you want to achieve is to build another layer between awesome and > the final configuration file. Nice! Somebody else opened the box for me :) I've been wanting for days to post s

Re: config file maintenance

2008-12-01 Thread Julien Danjou
At 1228146547 time_t, Andreas Klöckner wrote: > You can (and probably should) even support both points of view: Keep the > current default config, but add enough hooks that I can dofile() just one > thing at the end to make my wishes happen. Then everybody is free to hack the > default, or, as I

Re: config file maintenance

2008-12-01 Thread Andreas Klöckner
On Montag 01 Dezember 2008, Julien Danjou wrote: > Hi, > > I think Maarten well answered your question. > > At 1228087684 time_t, Andreas Klöckner wrote: > > a) Don't break APIs. Ever. Pretty please. Breaking people's work > > environment is a complete no-no. If you have to, do so extremely gently,

Re: config file maintenance

2008-12-01 Thread Julien Danjou
Hi, I think Maarten well answered your question. At 1228087684 time_t, Andreas Klöckner wrote: > a) Don't break APIs. Ever. Pretty please. Breaking people's work environment > is a complete no-no. If you have to, do so extremely gently, and with plenty > of documentation on how to adapt. Rememb

[Fwd: Re: config file maintenance]

2008-11-30 Thread Maarten Maathuis
Forgot to send to list as well. Original Message Subject:Re: config file maintenance Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:02:36 +0100 From: Maarten Maathuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Andreas Klöckner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

config file maintenance

2008-11-30 Thread Andreas Klöckner
Hi all, I think that awesome has quite a significant problem with config file maintainability. Here's the story, conveniently from my point of view: So, I discover awesome, find it likewise, hack my config file to pieces, use it for a few months and am happy. Then I upgrade from 3.0 to 3.1rc3,