[Bug 1973] New: Make configuration files easier to use

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http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1973

            Bug ID: 1973
           Summary: Make configuration files easier to use
           Product: Thermostat
           Version: hg
          Hardware: all
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5
         Component: Thermostat
          Assignee: unassigned at icedtea.classpath.org
          Reporter: omajid at redhat.com
                CC: thermostat at icedtea.classpath.org

>From [1]:

"""
Aside (some food for thought for 2.0):
The number of thermostat configuration files tends to grow. From a sys-admin
point of view this is hard to maintain. One needs to remember where the config
file is, what it's name is and various properties files seem to use different
casing/syntax. It would be nice to unify thermostat configuration somehow.
Perhaps have one file in THERMOSTAT_HOME and another in USER_THERMOSTAT_HOME.
How a suitable format of such a file could look like I'd leave up for
discussion for the time being :)
"""

I agree with the assesment of the issue. We have too many config files. They
all with their own syntax (or at least, style). They have different meanings
and usage. They use different parsers.

[1]
http://icedtea.classpath.org/pipermail/thermostat/2014-September/010630.html

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