Re: [Evolution-hackers] Roadmap Feedback (LAST CALL)

[Dan Winship <danw novell com>]

On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 11:52 -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 16:56 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote:
> > Last call for Evolution road map feedback.
> > 
> > -JP
> 
> Somewhat late here, but something I'd like to hack on for 2.2 is a
> rewrite of the way Evolution stores its configuration information - last
> time I looked, it stores hierarchical configuration for the various
> objects as single strings in GConf (containing XML streams).  I'd prefer
> it if the hierarchy was stored in expanded form within the GConf
> database as separate keys and values.

The problem with this is that there's (currently) no way to express this
in a GConf schema. (You could specify properties for a single account,
but the only way to have an arbitrary number of something is to have a
single list-valued property like we do now.)

-- Dan