Re: [Evolution] [off-topic] Automatic contacts

[Ralf Mardorf <silver bullet zoho com>]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 00:47:03 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-09-12 at 20:35 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > My recommendation is to avoid using apps that use dconf  
>
> Why?

Hi,

because a binary blob as config for many apps is far away from a UNIX
alike kiss principle. A human readable individual config for each app
is the far better approach, at least for those who customize their
Linux or BSD installs.

Take a look at

$ gsettings list-schemas | sort

dconf is kind of a $HOME in $HOME, just that users have to use the
dconf and gsettings command, that even don't share the same syntax for
the paths. For gsettings it's org.gnome.evolution.addressbook and for
dconf it's /org/gnome/evolution/addressbook/, so when using scripts you
need to care (not only) about this.

That's all very well for those who migrated from Windows to Linux or
BSD, but those of us who are native UNIX/POSIX system alike users are
used to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle , since we
decided against the restricted approach, for a strategy that allows
easy customization.

Too funny and it's not a coincidence that that the OP asked for
something similar to "about:config", a lot of users are already used to
bad designed software making things far to complicated and/or
restricted.

Regards,
Ralf