Several people have suggested to me that the new Desktop Entry Standard
define the on-disk file in XML.  What we really care about is the actual
keys and values, the on-disk format isn't nearly as important.  XML would
give us a clearly defined, hierarchical system (something the current
ini-like format lacks) which we already have a parser for in Qt 2.0.

The GNOME guys are in favor of "fixing this" as well.  They would have to
go through the same sort of pain as us in switching to this new file
format, as their on-disk format currently is INI-like as well.

Comments welcome.

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  Preston Brown                                    Systems Engineer
  pbrown@redhat.com                                Red Hat Software, Inc.