Re: What is a schema?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Archit Baweja <bighead crosswinds net> writes:
> 
> As the subjects says - What is a schema? 
> 
> and some other related questions :-
> 
> How important is a schema file?
> What is the format of the schema file?
> 

This is to some degree in the documentation, though it looks like the
web site copy isn't working.

Briefly, a schema is metainformation about a key, such as its default
value, which application created it, its type, and documentation of
its purpose and possible values.

The schema file is a file you ship with your application containing
the information necessary to install the schema in a GConf database.
An example schema file comes with GConf.

Havoc