Re: Ideas/Regressions - gconf/Registry

On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 04:31:47PM +0300, Tommi Komulainen wrote:
> 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.

Yes, from the storage of options, i agree with you, but that does not
mean it is good also for the UI for accessing them.

I think there was even something about this in the HIG, or the metacity
author's rant about preference, or even the Sun usability survey, don't
remember where exactly, will have to check.

> There is absolutely nothing preventing access to per app configuration.

Just the phobia of presenting the apps user with advanced options, and
thus the need for hidden options.

> > 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...

Yes, that would be nice, and maybe even calling it from the galeon menus
as such.

> 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.

Yes, so we need a nice advanced-galeon-setup or something such ? Does it
make sense to have this as a separated app, or should it be developped
in common with galeon ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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