[openbox] Include another config file?

[Dana Jansens]

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 5:51 AM, R. Mattes <rm at mh-freiburg.de> wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 00:49:02 -0400, Dana Jansens wrote
>> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Xyne <xyne at archlinux.ca> wrote:
>> > Dana Jansens wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > I wanna split the "~/.config/openbox/rc.xml" to:
>> >> >
>> >> > *rc.xml
>> >> > *keyboard-shortcuts-general.xml
>> >> > *keyboard-shortcuts-pekwm.xml
>> >> > *keyboard-shortcuts-windows.xml
>> >> > *per-application-settings.xml
>> >> >
>> >> > Is there something like an <include> tag, to include other *.xml files?
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Unfortunately, no.  As Vlad pointed out you can for menu definitions, but
>> >> not for other stuff.
>> >
>> > Would you consider adding such a tag? It could be very useful for sharing
>> > configurations, e.g. shortcuts for tiling windows using GrowTo* etc.
>>
>> I would consider accepting a patch to do so, but probably won't write
>> it myself.
>
> This sounds like a severe case os reinventing-the-wheel :-)
> Isn't openbox using libxml2 internally? Why not use the mechanics of XInclude
> for the task? Just add _one_ line of code ( xmlXInclude(your_xml_doc_here); )

I hadn't realized libxml had such simple support for that!

http://git.openbox.org/?p=dana/openbox.git;a=commit;h=0bb93870b03c3670f6f96b0149de3506cb292d8e

This has been commited to my work branch, and I tried it out and it
let's me include things such as:

<xi:include href="keys.xml" />

(Note the change to the default rc.xml file which is required for it
to work though.)



>> However, one problem is ObConf would not know what to do
>> with that either.  I intend to make this situation better sometime,
>> but with a more deep overhaul of how config works.
>
> Doesn't obconf use libobt? By using XInclude everthing should work aut of the
> openbox ...

Thanks for this :)

- Dana


>  HTH Ralf Mattes
>
>> > Regards,
>> > Xyne
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