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Some suggestions for improving adoption of this:

1. Don't have a dependency on hyprlang. Other projects will probably be averse to that. Use a more common configuration language, using a common library.

2. Have a shim layer so that hyprcursor cursors can be used by applications that use the XCursor API (maybe have a drop in replacement library for libxcursor that delegates to hyprcursor).

3. Have a specification so other implementations can use the cursor format as well, in case other compositors/clients don't like your implementation for some reason.

It should be noted that the author is the creator of hyprland/hyprlang, so perhaps not too surprising that they made it a dependency, although I do agree with you.

> 1. Don't have a dependency on hyprlang. Other projects will probably be averse to that. Use a more common configuration language, using a common library.

Use XDG ini.

What is XDG ini?

XDG is the freedesktop group I believe. https://specifications.freedesktop.org/

Yes, i knew that. What is XDG ini?

The format they use. Find and view a *.desktop file, for instance.

*.desktop files are at most ini-like, they have a different specification that does not mention "INI" at all. What did formerly_proven refer to when saying "XDG ini"?

"INI" is not a specification. All INI parsers are slightly different, such that people refer to any file with

    [Section]
    Key = Value

Format as "INI" or INI-like, including the xdg format.

Heck. TOML is a superset of it.

A subset, any TOML is a valid INI, but not nearly all INI are valid TOML

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