Felix Miata said the following on 02/07/2013 01:35 AM:
On 2013-02-06 18:31 (GMT-0500) Anton Aylward composed:
I use KDE and KDM. As I've pointed out the config file for KDM lives on /usr share.
In Fedora, it's FHS-conforming /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc. Mageia symlinks one of several in its /var/lib rat's nest into /etc/kde/config/kdm/kdmrc. In my openSUSE systems I symlink the one buried in /opt or the /usr/share rat's nest to /etc/kde[4]/config/kdm/kdmrc. Sure is nice not for global config files to be so scattered about. :-(
+1 Firstly that you're doing that fix manually, subsequently that Fedora is conforming .... The point I was trying to make was that the original developers were not 'conforming' and as you say, neither is openSUSE. I'm sure if we drill down we'll find many examples of individual developers who made various non-conforming choices. I could be pedantic and point out that K&R established a convention that you could grep for things in files since the config was all 'one liners' like in the /etc/passwd, etc/group and old /etc/inetd format, a convention of colon separated values on one lines. The move to "stanzas" - started if I recall by IBM on the early AIX machines/6150 workstations of 1986 vintage - broke that. The X11 config used 'stanzas' as well but instead of reading like C with "{ ...}" format it used CamelWord delimiters. We've subsequently moved to XML, a different view of 'stanzas' that needs a special parser program. I can be picky and point out that X11 used other formats for config files and that KDM's kdmrc uses the "[Stanza Label]" format. When did they start using that? Did they "borrow" it from Microsoft or is it one of those 'simultaneous' inventions because its obvious? Contemporary UNIX/Linux uses all these formats. I can't see them all being abolished in favour of one format or one centralized 'registry' ala Microsoft. I'm not in favour of such a move. Such a move would not be innovative but would be regressive since it would stifle further innovation. Suppose it had happened a decade or so ago; would we have developed XML config files? -- The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. --Alfred North Whitehead -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org