Re: Improving user interaction with gconf

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hey Havoc,

On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 10:24, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 08:30:17PM +0000, MArk Finlay wrote: 
> > My idea for how to do that is this: create a gconf-administrator program
> > which is almost identicle to gconf-editor except that it can only be run
> > by root and that it does not allow for the editing of any single user's
> > keys. It would be used to edit manditory keys and schemas/defaults.
> 
> IIRC the main reason gconf-editor can't edit the mandatory/default
> system config sources is just that Anders didn't understand at the
> time that there were multiple sources and you needed to be able to
> edit individual ones.

	Well if you edit the defaults/mandatory database the
user does not get notifications of changes. Also it is not
possible to construct an arbitrary composite database and
edit that .. which would be nice imho.

	So I started looking at all this a while back, with
a view to allowing gconf-editor to do this. The gconf
patches to make the above work are still sitting in bugzilla.
I'd kinda forgotten about them ...

	http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88829
	http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88828

Good Luck,
Mark.