Sergei Steshenko a écrit :
Is this GNOME philosophy to use another (gconf, gconftool-2) tool to edit settings ? If yes, why ?
Gconf is a system, where you have a daemon managing preferences for programs.
Programs use libgconf to connect easily to the daemon and handle preferences.
There is a gconftool-2 commmand-line tool to make it scriptable, and you could install gconf-editor to have a nice gui.
But users are not supposed to access their config directly like this : it's just because you have a very specific need that we point you to it.
Snark on #ekiga