Re: GConf (was Re: Balsa (cvs 07-27-2001) crashes on html mail)

[John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr webmail bmi net>]

On 2001.07.29 05:39 Pawel Salek wrote:
> 
> On 2001.07.29 01:36 Ali Akcaagac wrote:
> > gnome_config in this case the old configuration file placed in
> > ~/.gnome/balsa
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > gconf the new way of gnome configuring which is placed in
> > ~/.gconf/<subdir>
> > 
> > where subdir is a directorytree with 'x' amount of subdirs and
> > another 'x' amount of gconf.xml files.
> > 
> > here an attached example of how gnome 1.4 and 2.0 prefereabely want to
> > store all configuration files :) here the way how nautilus uses
> > to store its configurations. instead one simple plain textfile you
> > get this.
> 
> Balsa does not yet used GConf for storing configuration. We would need to
> require gnome-1.4 then, at least. This step needs to be done, the
> question
> is: when (of course, having the GConf code ready cannot hurt). 
> 
> So, I would like to ask whether is gnome-1.4 common enough to make this
> transition now? (I have gnome-1.4 on all boxes that run balsa, but not
> all
> boxes I have under my control run it).
> 
> /Pawel
> -----
> Pawel Salek, pawsa@theochem.kth.se
> 

Using gconf would not be a problem with FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE.  It's already
using gnome-1.4 and gconf.  It would be nice for balsa to use gconf too.

jmc