Re: GConf design goals.

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Miguel de Icaza <miguel ximian com> writes:  
> So which part exactly you think is impossible to edit with VI?
> 

The point is that you can't rely on having the GTK-based property
sheets available to edit a CORBA_any. So you would rely on a tool such
as gconfsole or gconftool or a Perl module. vi is not feasible, GConf
will not detect the file changes and will overwrite them since vi
won't do locking, plus the XML format is really unfriendly.

But see:
 http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gconf-list/2001-February/msg00056.html

for why I don't think this thread is getting anywhere.

Havoc