Re: gconfd and multiple machines

Havoc Pennington <[email protected]> Tue, 6 May 2003 18:27:27 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.os.redhat
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 06:03:20PM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: 
> The best that writing the files atomically does is give you coherency
> between the keys in a single directory. But that isn't enough:
> it should be easy, for instance, to get
> apps/gnome-terminal/default_profile pointing at a non-existent profile.

To get the same semantics as regular config files, we could of course
just switch to a backend that puts all config in a single file, or all
config below /apps/foo in a single file.

Havoc