Re: proposed architecture evolutions for GConf

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Hi Josselin;

On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 12:02 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:

> How about forgetting this communication thing? Configuration is stored
> in files, we just need to read and write these files. We even have some
> decent ways to monitor files now: local using inotify, remote using fam
> with dnotify.

no.

preferences API is not that simple; you end up with a lot of
applications locking and unlocking a single file, you cannot have
multiple programs changing system-wide defaults, and you have a lot of
load/save code paths that might just end up blowing up you
configuration.

this would be a *huge* regression for GNOME; pulling a KDE and using a
single file for application plus a system wide configuration file is,
for me, not a viable option in 2006.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.


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