Re: /desktop/gnome/file_views/icon_theme

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On 05/08/03 21:09, James Ogley wrote:

> I'm not quite sure how this is different from what I'm doing.
>
> I'm putting the schemas I want to use in a certain directory, other than
> the 'real' schemas location then running
> gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule /path/to/schemas/*.schemas
> with GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE set appropriately.
>
> I've actually just nicked this approach from SuSE - it's toggleable
> whether to do this, or to use the default schemas as installed by the
> packages themselves.
>  
Well, the primary purpose of the schemas is to define and document GConf 
keys.  They are really supposed to be data files, rather than 
configuration files (it is really an accident that the schemas ended up 
being put in /etc).

If you want to modify the defaults for the system, the correct way is to 
change them in the defaults database, rather than change the definitions 
of those keys.

James.

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