Re: GConf vs. bonobo-config

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Bastien,

On 15 Jun 2001, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > Many. I have already made two announcements on the gnome lists. We also had an
> > extensive discussion on the gconf list (half a year ago). Most people at Ximian
> > are aware of the project, and I have even talked to peoples at Sun ;-)
> 
> So is that it ? People at Ximian and Sun knew about it, and then the
> whole Gnome community knows about it ?

	Dude, please read the GConf mailing list archive for extensive
discussion about GConf brokennes from the Bonobo / CORBA perspective. It
just so happens that one of the Sun hackers - Colm was working on GConf at
the time.

	So ... no conspiriacies, he just read a public list and posted
replies, again publicly.

> Am I supposed to work at Ximian or Sun to know what my applications
> are going to use to read their configuration ?

	Well, there has been a feeling among people I know at Ximian that
GConf is insufferably broken, and fixing it is impossible due to profound
differences of opinion on the role of CORBA / Bonobo in Gnome 2.0.

> Blow, I'm pissed off.

	I'm sorry you feel that way - this is a technicaly motivated
decision, albeit perhaps obscured by a desire not to see Havoc's GConf
design severely criticised publicly.

	I hope that makes things clearer ? and less threatening ?

		Michael.

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