Re: Gnome 2.0: gnome-config and GConf and command-line

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

Well this is starting to sound like major crack to me, but there's no
reason you couldn't have custom configuration directories in GConf. So
there could be a "web" profile in /apps/nox/custom/web, "print" profile
in /apps/nox/custom/print, etc.

-Seth

On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 12:58, Patrick wrote:
> All good, except can a user have several parallel configurations using
> GConf?
> 
> My configuration file will be setting the environment of the application
> and I envision that it will be useful for the user to use a different
> environments for different projects. They may load fewer or more
> plugins, set different save/load profiles, have a different UI
> arrangement, window sizes, etc.
> 
> I'd like the user to be able to do the equivalent of:
> 	nox -c web.conf
> or
> 	nox -c print.conf
> where web.conf might open fewer tool windows, hide some of the more
> advanced options, set the web palette in the colour selector, create
> default save profiles for SVG, SWF ... while print.conf might set up the
> target device profile for the printer, not show web specific plugins,
> have the toolbars grouped differently , work in another colorspace,
> etc...
> 
> If I can do this with GConf great.
> 
> 
> patrick.
> 
> On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 22:49, Seth Nickell wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 19:18, Patrick wrote:
> > > Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. I plan on using GConf but I need to
> > > allow the user to override settings - therefore I *also* need a
> > > configuration file format. Therefore, my question was: is it possible to
> > > use gnome-config for this or is it becoming obsolete and should I roll
> > > my own?
> > 
> > GConf will help deal with a number of things you want here:
> > 
> > -allows system admins to set a system-wide default
> > 
> > that...
> > 
> > -users can override in their local GConf settings
> > 
> > and...
> > 
> > -users can edit without using your application's preferences page by
> > using a tool such as gconf-editor (for humans) or gconf-tool (for
> > scripts)
> > 
> > -Seth
> > 
> 
>