Re: GConf design goals.

[Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com> writes:
> >
> > I consider the possibility to store CORBA_any as more flexible, since I
> > do not make any restrictions to the data which can be stored.
> >
> > Your argument is to protect users from doing strange things. I simply think
> > you can't protect someone from making errors. Maybe you can make I a
> > bit more unlikely. On the other side there are many usage scenarios where
> > structures are perfectly well, and I want to allow the use of structures
> > where
> > it is useful.
> >
>
> If you just want to use structures, you can just use a wrapper such as
> bonobo-conf, or just a utility function such as
> corba_any_to_string(). I don't see what difference that makes for
> GConf in any deep sense.
>

The difference is that only bonobo-conf programs can access those
values if I decode everything into a string. Else every program can
access/modify those values.

- Dietmar