Re: Installing gconf preferences problems

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Hi,

Ross Burton <ross burtonini com> writes: 
> Looking over the configure options gave me --with-gconf-schema-file-dir
> and --with-gconf-source but whatever I tried either gave "Bad address
> `/home/users/ross/bin/gnome2/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/'"

The address would be xml:readwrite:/home/users... rather than just the
file name. For this to do any good though, you will also need to edit
your ~/.gconf.path to include the location in your home dir.
Copy /etc/gconf/2/path

> or make install attempted to install in /etc/gconf anyway.

The GConf makefile stuff should default to sysconfdir/gconf, not 
a fixed location; this may be broken. 

You probably want to read http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ to get
a conceptual understanding of what's going on, then you can most
likely figure it out and know what needs reporting as a bug.

Havoc