Re: Ideas/Regressions - gconf/Registry

On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 11:51, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 04:34:10AM +0100, mike wrote:
> > I am getting seriously tired of people saying that gconf/gconf-editor is
> > the same as the windows regigistry
> 
> It is the same philosophy. A centralized place where you can change
> everything opposed to a per app configuration place.

And it is a good thing.  Centralized place where everything is stored
for easy access and backup and whatnot.  See /etc for one popular
example.

There is absolutely nothing preventing access to per app configuration.


> It would not have been so bad if there was a way to access the
> gconf option for a given app, while hiding the other stuff, not
> necessarily showing the long path to the options and maybe having access
> to this from the app itself. Ideally there would be a nice UI on top of
> it, but that is maybe asking too much.

I have always felt that gconf-editor should support being started like
'gconf-editor /apps/galeon'  It's left as an exercise to the reader to
figure what that should do.  I just never get around to file a bug...

For a nicer UI, see metacity-setup.  I'm not saying that is necessarily
the right way to do configuration.  Just an example of how it *can* be
done, if necessary.


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Tommi Komulainen                                 [email protected]
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