Feature request: modular config files
Johan
aequitas at planet.nl
Mon Oct 31 14:20:01 PST 2005
>There is nothing worse than wandering through 20 config files trying to
>figure out what to change where. The X config file is not that large
>and is pretty easy to understand once you get the hang of it.
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>Jeremy
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The advantage is the current methode can still be used. Because the new
style is build up of seperate files included in the main file. Settings
can easily be changed by renaming a include instead of copy pasting
(commenting uncommenting) text from templates or manual's.
Also config files for many common devices can be included with the
default build. Since they don't get used until they are included. This
way it would also be easier for new users to make ther first xorg config.
A parser would be able to split/combine the files so the full config
file still excists and can be used as normal. And since every seperate
config file will be named by the section name combined with the
indentifier there would be no conflict splitting up the full config to
segments.
Version support would also be easy because versions can be included in
the indetifier.
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