GNOME Settings vs. Application Specific Settings

["Erick Woods" <erick gnomepro com>]

I am working with Kyle Davis on Velocity, a file manager for GNOME.  We are
running into things which are currently Nautilus specific and would be
better if moved to a more neutral corner of gconf.  The the following define
found in capplets/font/main.c is the current issue.
#define DESKTOP_FONT_KEY  "/apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_font"

Can that be relocated to a better spot?  Perhaps:
"/desktop/gnome/interface/desktop_font_name"
Several people need to be involved in this, so here it is.  It really should
be a GNOME key and not a Nautilus key.  I am also finding several areas
where there are Nautilus specific calls - should a file manager agnostic way
of doing things be worked out?  In the long run, it would be nice to not
have control center dependant on Nautilus - in the near future we hope to
find that Velocity meets all the needs of the users who choose it and having
another file manager lying around doesn't make sense.

Erick Woods
erick gnomepro com
http://www.gnomepro.com/