Re: gconf relative to other GNOME config API's

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Ramiro Estrugo <ramiro@eazel.com> writes: 
> Of course you then need to test stuff to make sure nothing broke.  And
> finally you need to make sure all the paths match.  Would all the path
> strings continue to be the same ?  Would code that uses gnome_config
> just work without any changes ?  
> 

There are a couple problems:
 - it would work, but it would still be broken code, since it would
   ignore error and notifications
 - some gnome_config_* code implicitly or explicitly assumes that 
   files are being edited. For example, saving a session and 
   saving "rm -rf ~/.gnome/foo" as the "discard" command. 
   Or .desktop file manipulation

Havoc