XFree86 and XML config file

Hello,

I think that a major issue about XFree86 is the text-based format of the 
configuration file. If you use Linux, you sometimes need to edit the 
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file by hand, which is not easy for many people, 
particularly newbies. The only other option is to use a graphical 
application which is always specific to a Linux distribution vendor 
(SuSE, Mandrake, Debian, etc) and are sometimes buggy (they lead to 
corruption of the configuration file). The heart of the problem is that 
you *never* know if these graphical tools are buggy or not, and if they 
are compatible with the installed version of XFree86.

To address these problems, I suggest that XFree86 should use an XML 
configuration file in the future. With a standardized XML configuration 
file, XFree86 could check the config file using an XML Schema and spot 
errors (a Schema is just a newer kind of DTD, which allow a precise 
definition of the range of values). The graphical tools would then be 
bug-proof and compatible from one distribution to another. And as you 
know, XML is just plain text, so the config file could still be edited 
by hand for more advanced users.

Thanks in advance for your interest.

Greg
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