Common syntax highlighting descriptions
GtkSourceview and Kate are both using very similar syntax highlighting descriptions, but not quite. I often cam across the believe that XML is for describing a configuration standard for one or some more applications. The problem with that is, that these standards tend to be build for one or more applications that actually do have more or less the same code but not for those of different code. What I would like to suggest is that the description files of gtksourceview and kate have the same DTD or Schema they share. That would enable us to share every language description that a user of one of the both worlds (KDE/GNOME) builds.
To reach these goal I would suggest
- make both worlds recognize the old standards of the other side
- make one directory where to put all old standard files
- invent a new schema that have the feature of both old standards and maybe some new
- have an extra package (maybe "sourceview") where all these descriptions are installed to.
-- ThiloPfennig 2006-05-14 09:25:58 PS: I do not know where else to put those suggestions?