Comment 3 for bug 1085846

I know it's designed that way. But it's the design I am questioning.

I think it's too confusing for everyone to have a separate COMPIZ_CONFIG_CONTEXT and COMPIZ_CONFIG_PROFILE.

Best I can tell, the context (which is what COMPIZ_CONFIG_PROFILE really is right now) is the name of the entry to look up in .config/compiz-1/compizconfig/config. It seems to be designed that way so you don't need multiple variables for COMPIZ_CONFIG_BACKEND, COMPIZ_CONFIG_INTEGRATED, COMPIZ_CONFIG_PLUGIN_LIST_AUTOSORT etc.

But it could be simpler...

What if COMPIZ_CONFIG_PROFILE actually represented the profile and we paid attention to COMPIZ_CONFIG_BACKEND? Then you would have enough information to always find the profile data. Information like integration=false could be stored in the backend as part of the profile itself. Thus if both variables are set you can ignore and live without the ini file.