Re: Ease of use and configurability
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 03:13:52PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Every program that fetches user-modifiable files to control its behavior
> (on a Debian system and according to the FHS, these should all be in /etc
> or as dotfiles/dirs in $HOME) should have a kind an associated interface
> file. Call it /usr/lib/<package>/gconfig or something.
> Most configration files are reducible to key/value pairs (sometimes a key
> word may take multiple values simultaneously, as in a list of pathnames),
> or a list of grouped key/value pairs (/etc/passwd).
> Pipe dream, or can we make it real? Or does this suffer from some horrible
> conceptual flaw that I haven't thought of?
I hope we can make it real. This is no.1 thing Linux needs to gain
popularity. It really sucks that every app has a diffrent configuration
system.
> I must also say that I am sure I do not have the coding expertise to
> implement much of this at all. If I did, I'd be on it.
If I had more time, i'd try to implement it, even if i'm no expert. the only
way to learn is to practise.
Riku Voipio
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