XSETTINGS - cross toolkit configuration proposal
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## XSETTINGS - cross toolkit configuration proposal

### Owen Taylor

`<otaylor@redhat.com>`

Version 0.5

## Goals

The intent of this specification is to specify a mechanism to allow the configuration of settings such as double click timeout, drag-and-drop threshold, and default foreground and background colors for all applications running within a desktop. The mechanism should:

allow for instant updates to be propagated across all applications at runtime
perform well, even for remote applications.

It is not intended:

for the storage of application-specific data
to be able to store large amounts of data
to store complex data types (other than as strings)

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