xfce rc & python

[Benedikt Meurer]

Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> so Daniele Favara is using the python bindings and stumbled over a major
> oversight on my part...
> 
> The xfce-rc files of xfce4 are completely non-gobject. The wrapper
> generator hates me for that.
> 
> Fine, I thought... Then let's just use python's ConfigParser instead.
> python's ConfigParser is a module for parsing INI-style files that is
> included in python's main distribution.
> 
> However, our xfce rc files are not ini files. For one, they don't have a
> "[Section Header]"... Now, we could make xfce-rc add that...
> 
> But do we want to? Or do we want to stay with the rc format as it is
> now?
> In other things (comments, etc), are they equal in handling to ini
> files?
> 
> What about "elevating" xfce rc to gobject? In that late of a phase I
> feel uneasy doing that kind of change, so no.
> 
> Tell me what you think...

It could be turned into a GObject after 4.4. But on the other hand, you
could also just add overrides for the functions, the overrides should be
very easy to do.

> cheers,
>   Danny

Benedikt