> more brainstorming + naivity:
> what if the settings "tree" was just a tree of dicts, and then parse the
> tree all at once after you are done building?
> would that look cleaner?

I think that would look roughly the same as your "new()" helper. I'll
try to monkey with some things and see if I can come up with a prototype
that looks better.

However, just splitting out the groups you had in this patch into helper
methods would reduce scope on each a little, I think. I've been bad
about just appending to the end of the list myself, but the drivers with
good setting support are in need of some more organization, I think.

Anyway, I was just remarking because you showed up with a thousand new
settings all at once, so it was just really obvious. I'd rather have the
thousand settings over not of course! :)