Re: [HC Evolution] Re: libole2 -> gnomevfs backend?

[Arturo Tena <arturo directmail org>]

NotZed wrote:

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> > Localizing Evolution and Wombat related data into a file makes things easier
> > for a user. They can move a file from one machine to another, and they can
> > back up that one file onto another machine. We're going for ease of use
> > here; a single file for storage says "I'm your Evolution stuff", but a
> > directory says "I have a million files in me, and I'm complicated. Edit my
> > files and you'll mess everything up. Explore me and you'll get confused."
>
> Uh?  Why would a user want to?  Hiding it in a single file just
> makes it impossible to edit or understand (or fix, or troubleshoot, etc).
>
> If a user has to worry about automatically created any file at all,
> then its already too complicated.  "save settings as" seems to work
> pretty well, or in a real enterprise environment their settings will
> be on nfs, or in a central server (e.g. ldap), so they definetly
> will not need to be copying any config file.  Stop thinking
> like a windoze user.

I don't understand. I thought it was saving user information, not settings.

> > Likewise, I think although we could store some settings in (say) gconf,
> > those settings should be duplicated in our file -- again, so that if one
> > changes machines, and moves their one file, they can fire up Evolution
> > without problems.
> >
> > I admit, putting this stuff into a file (rather than a directory) doesn't
> > make programmers' lives easier. But we're designing Evolution for users
> > first, not programmers. :)
>
> Doesn't really make any differnece if you ahve the interface.  A lot
> of little files is a pain to program, without the config api you'll
> have anyway.

Could gnome-vfs have a gconf backend?