[JDEV] Standards

[John P. Looney]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 01:54:12PM -0500, Jerrad Pierce mentioned:
> 1 for X on Sun and SGI machines, 1 for GNOME on a private linux box, and one
> for login sessions. Not to mention if we standardize (or recommend) a config
> file format, you could have use some kind of roaming with your config file
> (LDAP, or the like). It just seems like a very logical step to me.

 If you want a "roaming profile" or whatever, perhaps it would be better
to have a look at ACAP, the University of Michigan's Application
Configuration Access Protocol, which grew from part of their new email
infrastructure, and is currently going through the IETF's process of
becoming an internet standard. Read here: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/

 What would be *magnificent* would be if KDE and GNOME supported it
natively, as a place to store their configs in (they have a registry API
that currently saves configs in your home directory). Then adding support
for whatever client you are using shouldn't be a problem.

Kate

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