From kde-core-devel  Thu Jul 26 22:57:24 2001
From: Martijn Klingens <mklingens () yahoo ! com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:57:24 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: RFC: KConfig changes for 3.0
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=99618806114640

On Wednesday 25 July 2001 23:10, Andre Alexander Bell wrote:
> What about having xml-config files with all options in it for the
> $KDEDIR/share/config so that the admin can see and change everything and
> furthermore to stare the xml-diffs winthin ~/.kde/share/config

I think performance will be killed if we start using XML, unless there is a 
global config server daemon. But looking at the Gnome mailing list archives I 
see that the code to make such a server failsafe is very difficult to write, 
so I wonder if we want it. It would be nice in some way, because it would 
allow us to use any kind of backend for config storage (the reason Gnome does 
it this way). But the technical implications tend to make me vote against it.

Using XML without a server process is probably too slow, so it would be 
all-or-nothing I fear.

Martijn