Re: Storing file references in GConf

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 19:53 -0400, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> 
> E.g. Havoc suggested we could have something like
> gconf_client_get_uri()/gconf_client_set_uri(), which could automatically
> translate between home-relative file URIs and proper ones.  And/or we
> could have GNOME VFS URI handle these out of the box.
> 
I think it's the best solution to have gnome-vfs understand ~, since its
usage is so common in UNIX systems. Also, it will solve the problem we
have in Evolution, since you'll just have to get the key's value and use
that as the URI for GNOME-VFS operations.

cheers