for opt in config:
            if ("name" in opt) and ("value" in opt) and (opt["name"] not in vars(self)):
                self.__dict__[opt["name"]] = opt["value"]

        # plugin state
        if module and module not in conf.plugins:
             conf.plugins[module] = 1
             #@TODO: use meta["priority"] in ("core", "builtin", "default") etc.

    
        
    # http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
    def xdg(self, path="/streamtuner2"):
        home = os.environ.get("HOME", self.tmp)
        config = os.environ.get("XDG_CONFIG_HOME", os.environ.get("APPDATA", home+"/.config"))

            else:
                return # file not found
            # decode
            r = json.load(f)
            f.close()
            return r
        except Exception as e:
            __print__(dbg.ERR, "JSON parsing error (in "+name+")", e)
        

    # recursive dict update
    def update(self, with_new_data):
        for key,value in with_new_data.items():
            if type(value) == dict:
                self[key].update(value)

    keyval  = re.compile(r"""
        ^([\w-]+):(.*$(?:\n(?![\w-]+:).+$)*)      # plain key:value lines
    """, re.M|re.X)
    config  = re.compile(r"""
        [\{\<] (.+?) [\}\>]                    # JSOL/YAML scheme {...} dicts
    """, re.X)
    options = re.compile(r"""
        ["':$]?   (\w*)  ["']?                 # key or ":key" or '$key'
        \s* [:=] \s*                           # "=" or ":"
     (?:  "  ([^"]*)  " 
       |  '  ([^']*)  '                        #  "quoted" or 'singl' values
       |     ([^,]*)                           #  or unquoted literals
     )
    """, re.X)




# wrapper for all print statements
def __print__(*args):
    if "debug" in conf and conf.debug:
        print(" ".join([str(a) for a in args]))


# error colorization
dbg = type('obj', (object,), {
    "ERR":  r"[ERR]",  # red    ERROR
    "INIT": r"[INIT]", # red    INIT ERROR