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

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 13:07 -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 12:31 -0400, Dan Winship wrote:
> > 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.)
> 
> Or have the things as subdirectories/subfolders within GConf, and set up
> the schema on-the-fly based on the type of the object?

Possibly, but then you can't get atomic notifications for the object as
a whole afaik.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
Novell, Inc.