XSETTINGS/XEMBED Cross-toolkit Protocols

Advancing the user experience on the open-source desktop depends upon creating standards for appli-cations to interact with each other and the desktop environment so that applications created with dif-ferent toolkits operate correctly with any desktop. The XSETTINGS protocol provides a simple ex-ample of some of the techniques and considerations that come into play for such standards. It provides a mechanism for all applications running on a desk-top to have access to a common set of settings for such user-configurable parameters as double-click time and background color.