On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 8:02 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > > * Reading the configuration format should not require linking to specific > > implementation libraries > > This is "not invented here". > No, what library is used is an implementation detail, and should not be part of the specification. From what I understand of Elektra, it seems like elektra could support "mounting" the configuration for the default terminal using a specific plugin for this purpose, and applications and frameworks could use Elektra to read this configuration, but the specification should not stipulate that Elektra (or any other library) must be used. If the best way to handle default terminal configuration is using something like Elektra's global key database, then perhaps there should be a separate XDG spec for that hierarchy, of which Elektra is an implementation (but not necessarily the only implementation).
> Does anyone here actually care about the first sentence on the website > "https://www.freedesktop.org";? It reads: "freedesktop.org hosts the > development of free and open source software, focused on > interoperability and shared technology for open-source graphical and > desktop systems". > Isn't that why we are here? To discuss an interoperable way for different open source desktop systems to launch applications in the user's prefered terminal. I'm not sure how some of the items in your list of "useful requirements for a FLOSS ecosystem" support your argument for Elektra: > - availability for popular distros Many popular distros don't have elektra in the official repos, and even if they do, it is not included in a normal install of most desktop environments. > - supports human-read/writeable configuration files All of the proposals so far have had this > - several implementations in different languages exist afaict, libelektra only has one implementation, with thin bindings for several other languages. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
