Re: is a value writeable?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Colm Smyth <Colm.Smyth@ireland.sun.com> writes: 
> The GConf public API's don't support mirroring because there is no
> API to specify one or more databases to be read/written.  One
> possibility would be to use gconftool which does allow a source
> database to be specified, but it must then be possible to write
> the keys and values in a form so that they can be recovered.  An
> additional 'import' option would then take a file and sets all
> values in that file (Windows' regedit can also do this).
> 

This has always been a planned feature, to make gconftool able to
dump a directory or keys to an XML file, and then able to stuff the
stuff back into a given backend.

Havoc