Re: gconf relative to other GNOME config API's

[Darin Adler <darin eazel com>]

on 8/25/00 5:25 AM, Colm Smyth at Colm.Smyth@ireland.sun.com wrote:

> GNOME already has two configuration API's which gconf is capable
> of replacing: gnome-config and gnome-mime-info. It is possible
> to re-write these API's in terms of GConf if required for
> backward compatability.

gnome-mime-info is being superceded by gnome-vfs-mime-info. Please don't
make any changes to the obsolete one in gnome-libs that should be removed
for GNOME 2.0 (and maybe even for GNOME 1.4).

> The gnome-mime-info keys include fm-open, fm-view, fm-ascii-open
> which are intended to specify file-management bindings. Nautilus
> appears to be using GConf directly.

That's not quite true. Although Nautilus uses gconf for many things
directly, the features that replace gmc's fm-open, fm-view, and
fm-ascii-open are still part of the gnome-vfs-mime-info framework, which
does not use gconf, although the features are much-changed from the ones
used by gmc.

> Should we attempt to support/migrate package owners who have
> used gnome-config or gnome-mime-info?

If there are any packages other than gmc that use gnome-mime-info, we need
to know about them so we can help them switch to gnome-vfs-mime-info.

    -- Darin