On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 02:57:04PM -0500, David Dawes wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 08:17:35PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Hello fellow developers,
> >
> >I was just wondering if there are any plans in a future release to
> >change the XFree86 configuration to XML?
> 
> There are plans to change how XFree86 is configured, but they are focused
> more on providing mechanisms for dynamic/runtime configuration and user
> preferences to complement the automatic configuration introduced in 4.4
> than on any specific file formats.

Ok, sounds good.


> 
> The XFree86 configuration file is handled solely by a parser module.
> You could write a new version of that module which reads a config file
> in some XML format that you define.


Thats great, I am not up to date on the module capabilities in X4, sorry
to bother the list with such an obvious question. :)  I'm surprised none
of the linux distributions out there have exploited this capability for
better integration into the rest of the system.

Thanks,
Vito Caputo

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