On 02/10/2010 05:43 PM, Laurence J. Lane wrote:
I had time to examine this situation more carefully. The vast majority of the
data in that directory fails policy's definition of configuration files.
Most of them seem to be configuration files by policy's definition as
far as I can tell.
anth...@feynman:config$ ls -l
total 76
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8602 2010-01-23 10:01 actionclasses.cfg
This one defines what various buttons do. For example, if you want to
change what happens when you middle-click a window titlebar system wide,
you change this file. (Maybe your machine doesn't have a middle mouse
button, or its hard to reach.)
http://etherdoxproject.com/etheme_tutorials/tut3.htm sort of explains
this file.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3629 2010-01-23 10:01 bindings.cfg
Global keyboard and mouse bindings. Definitely configuration; there is
even a tool to edit this on a per-user basis (e16keyedit). Perfectly
sane to edit. For example, if you're configuring a system with Firefox
as the default browser, changing e16's default Alt-Enter keybinding
makes a lot of sense.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25915 2010-01-23 10:01 definitions
This one really isn't a config file, I agree. It's just needed to parse
actionclasses.cfg. I think it used to be used more widely;
actionclasses.cfg maintains the old syntax (C preprocessor) that a bunch
of e16 config used to use…
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4269 2010-01-23 10:01 e16keyedit.db
This doesn't appear to be a config file really, I agree. Seems to just
list things for e16keyedit, I'm not sure why an admin would want to
change it.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 698 2010-01-23 10:01 fonts.pango.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 660 2010-01-23 10:01 fonts.xft.cfg
I believe this is where you can change the default e16 fonts
system-wide. Considering even GNOME's much-simplified interface contains
font preferences, this is surely configuration.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1778 2010-01-23 10:01 matches.cfg
This seems to let you configure e16 defaults on a per-app basis. I
didn't know this existed before, thanks for getting me to go through
this directory. This is pretty awesome... and looks like something an
admin would want to change. I've got a couple systems to change now, to
make Pidgin conversation windows sticky.
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-01-31 02:56 menus
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 247 2010-01-23 10:01 menus.cfg
Let's you customize the various menus. There is even a per-user editor
for this, e16menuedit, and pretty much every desktop environment has a
way to edit the menus. I think menu definitions are well-established as
configuration. See also /etc/menu/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-01-31 02:56 pix
This is clearly not config.
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