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Introducing the Mockup Project
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Posted by michael on Friday December 31, @02:47PM
from the hand-that-mocked-heart-that-fed dept.
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."
Sounds like the windows registry (Score:4, Insightful)
by n1ywb (555767) Alter Relationship on Friday December 31, @02:56PM
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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.
How is this any different from the Windows registry, one of it's most hated
"features"?
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-73, de n1ywb
Re:Sounds like the windows registry (Score:1)
by schestowitz (843559) on Friday December 31, @03:14PM (#11227721)
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The registry in Window$ keeps separate values for separate programs, much as
is done in all these dot (.) settings files...
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Roy Schestowitz
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