Cairo – Egypt
I’ve been to Cairo (in Egypt, not the software library) last week. All I have to share with my blog readers about my vacation is that
the (taxi) drivers in Cairo are insane and that I learned a lot about the ancient Egyptians and their culture. Our tourist guide was very good. If you plan to travel to Cairo and need a tourist guide, ask your travel agency (they probably use the services of Travco) for Mr. Hosam M. Kamel. I really enjoyed his passion for the culture of his country.
Desktop configuration specification
(Before I went on vacation) I’ve been doing some discussions with some of the key developers of
existing configuration infrastructure on the opensource platform about the creation of a specification and/or standard for desktop configuration.
I tried to create the standard. I used LaTex for the document format and
added a build environment that will create both a dvi and pdf from it.
You can find more information here (unfinished). You can find the proposal itself (it’s source) here and a tarball of it here. Because I know most of you guys are fucking lazy, this is a precompiled PDF.
I don’t yet have permission (from Daniel) to let freedesktop.org be the
CVS repository hosting location. He’d like to see a rough/scratch but
working implementation first. Mainly because standards tend to change
radically as an implementation is written. I don’t disagree with that.
If people are interested in building a rough implementation and/or
helping me with crafting this standard/specification: please do contact
me. I really can use your help (I’m serious). Read the “ps” if you are
interested.
Note that this rough implementation is not necessarily the same as the
project that has been dubbed “DConf”. It might be. Or “UniConf” could
implement it. Or .. whatever (which project implements it first, isn’t
important. But a first implementation is important for the standard to
prove itself).
ps. Some very interesting and extremely important documentation about
desktop configuration that affects this specification can be found here
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