Re: GConf design goals.

[Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com>]

Colm Smyth wrote:

> >> >The difference is that only bonobo-conf programs can access those
> >> >values if I decode everything into a string. Else every program can
> >> >access/modify those values.
> >>
> >> Wrong. Only programs that know about the data-structure you are
> >> encoding and the encoding method can access those values.
> >
> >Hi Colm,
> >
> >that is not true. You can explore the contents of each CORBA_any with
> >the DynAny interface (see CORBA specs).
>
> No real application will do this; if they did, it would completely
> negate the convenience of storing a structure in the first place.

Either you are interested in accessing arbitrary structures, or you are
not.
If I want to access/modify a configuration value in a convenient way you
have
to know the data format. Else you have to use the DynAny interface.
Where is the problem?

- Dietmar