Re: [Evolution] [off-topic] Automatic contacts

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Wed, 2017-09-13 at 00:47 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-09-12 at 20:35 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > My recommendation is to avoid using apps that use dconf
> Why?

I feel the complete opposite.  I would pretty to stick with
applications that use GSettings/dconf vs. some mess of random
configuration files - editing text files is not a solution for system
management.   GConf/GSettings/dconf were created to solve very real
problems.

As an application developer the last thing I want to spend time on is a
framework for configuring my application.  GSettings allows for
overriding, lock-down, etc... all things that are a genuine nuisance to
code custom.  It also has notification - which isn't anything a stand-
alone application is going to implement.

I can also merrily take my configurations, reliably, from one account
to another. <https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_ente
rprise_linux/7/html/desktop_migration_and_administration_guide/custom-
default-values-system-settings>  Which is much better than tar-scp-
untar+hope-n-pray.

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