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Subject: Re: Desktop Entry Standard / XML
From: <pbrown () redhat ! com>
Date: 1999-05-16 20:00:07
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On Sun, 16 May 1999, Cristian Tibirna wrote:
> Until now I only heard that a switch wouldn't be so hard. I didn't hear,
> though, any compelling advantage of this switch.
Extensibility. Emerging "industry standard." Note that I am not "gung
ho" to swith to XML, but the idea intrigues me and I at least *interested*
in exploring the possiblity.
IMO the point that "we have to maintain backwards compatibility with
existing KDE installations" is a non-issue. A conversion program that ran
whenever KDE detected an "old-style" config file or a KDE installation
time would take care of that. Additionally, we are breaking source
compatibility in KDE 2.0 in a rather major way, so I don't think asking
developers to switch their config files to a new format is too much on top
of that.
Again note that I am not advocating we do this. Just exploring it.
---
Preston Brown Systems Engineer
pbrown@redhat.com Red Hat Software, Inc.
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