The task is definitely not easy. There's a ton of hardware platforms, boards, configuration and features that all need to go into one codebase. Usually for such a project, I would suggest to use #Zephyr with devicetrees for hardware description and #Kconfig for user-friendly build-time configuration, but lately I've also been thinking of a totally different approach.

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@herzenschein great intro to #KConfig, #KSharedConfig.
This issue has bugged me ever since and many years ago, back then when #XDG was introduced I tried to steer several times into a direction as what you outlined in your post but unfortunately the idea never gained enough traction to do it "right" from the very start.

Nowadays, I'd love to see other backends for KConfig - e.g. I'd like to be able to use @charmcli's Skate [1] to sync my #KDE configs across devices.

[1] https://github.com/charmbracelet/skate

@davidak I've been entertaining the idea of building a prototype as #KConfig backend based on @charmcli's "Skate" (https://github.com/charmbracelet/skate), but never got any further than some theoretical concepts.

And you're right, this should be handled in a DE-agnostic manner...

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