XWin design suggestion

[Harold L Hunt II]

Right, that is what I was thinking all along.

Harold

Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> 
> 
>>So, I am going to have to see a much better reason than avoiding using 
>>Windows features for using something other than the registry.  Sure, we 
>>could use an XML config file... but that introduces another dependency 
>>on XML libraries, which I really don't want to have.
> 
> 
> The registry is good for storing such runtime settings. It was build to 
> reduce the work of parsing and writing .ini files. Why should we build
> yet another configfile parser? 
> 
> XF86Config is good for configuring the overall behaviour. But such runtime
> settings as the dialog position is best stored in the registry.
> 
> bye
> 	ago