Re: GConf design goals.

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com> writes:
> 
> I consider the possibility to store CORBA_any as more flexible, since I
> do not make any restrictions to the data which can be stored.
> 
> Your argument is to protect users from doing strange things. I simply think
> you can't protect someone from making errors. Maybe you can make I a
> bit more unlikely. On the other side there are many usage scenarios where
> structures are perfectly well, and I want to allow the use of structures
> where
> it is useful.
> 

If you just want to use structures, you can just use a wrapper such as
bonobo-conf, or just a utility function such as
corba_any_to_string(). I don't see what difference that makes for
GConf in any deep sense.

Havoc