On Thursday 26 July 2001 23:57, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> 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.

We can already use any kind of backend, that's what the KConfig/KConfigBackend
separation is for.

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

I agree, without having another ksycoca like cache, XML is too bloated here.

Rich.

>
> Martijn