Introducing the Mockup Project

Pier Luigi Fiorini writes "The Mockup project is a desktop operating system based on GNU/Linux. It has recently released new source code and published both screenshots and mockups. Read the announcement to know where are the source code tarballs and how to compile them. Mockup uses a new lightweight and modern graphical user interface that supports both pixel and vector based graphics. The GUI is based on bleeding edge technologies like Qt 4.0 beta, Elektra, HAL and DBUS. Elektra is a new backend for text configuration files. Instead of each program to have its own text configuration files, with a variety of formats, Elektra tries to provide a universal, hierarchical, fast and consistent namespace and infrastructure to access configuration parameters through a key-value pair mechanism. This way any software can read/save its configuration/state using a consistent API."

Comments

Re:Sounds like the windows registry

[fuck nwbvt]

Sounds to me more like Mac OS X's preferences system (accessed on the command line through the defaults utility).

Re:Sounds like the windows registry

[stevey]

Even a good package system like APT leaves files behind in /etc

Not if you purge a package instead of removing it.

When you remove a package you remove the binaries, but when you purge it you remove the configuration files too.

Re:Sounds like the windows registry

[Hard_Code]

How about try reading about it: elektra documentation

The concept of centralizing and standardizing the most common case of configuration files is the same. The implementation of course is different. Each key is stored as a file on disk. There is no daemon. There is no "corruption" (other than corrupting one key which will not affect other keys). The keys are still able to be hand-edited like any text file.