Re: mbcontrol return value

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:08:02 +0000
Matthew Allum <breakfast_at_10.am> wrote:
[...]
> It'd be great to have some sort of gconf-edit style frontend to
> XSETTINGS and possibly even extending the spec to support some sort of
> simple schema's and key descriptions.

I was thinking about something like this too and also started with but
got stuck in GTK2 tree widget :( Oh man... why did they make it that
complicated :) ! Anyway I was thinking about a tree style XSettings
config browser/editor since the XSettings entries seem to organised in a
tree-style, correct? So you can then fold and unfold the different
sections and make it a little more nicer to edit/browse.

As a second thought I was wondering how we could handle the different
options, i.e. how we could advertise the possible options of
applications to the user? For example I like the time display in
gpe-calendar in the time-side-bar. I had to ask Philip about the
XSetting for it.

It would be nice to have some sort of a standard to query applications
capable of using XSettings about the settings they understand. Maybe as
commandline option with a help text beeing displayed or some X query?
Any ideas? Comments?

> -- Matthew
CU
  nils faerber

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