On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 06:29:24PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >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
My use of the word "module" might be a little misleading. The parser is statically linked into the XFree86 server executable, but it is in a self-contained library. >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. A lot of the things they (don't) do surprise me :-) David -- David Dawes developer/release engineer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
