Re: GConf design goals.

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com> writes:
> Another handy CORBA_any feature are type aliases. A type alias is simply
> another name for a type, nothing more. This is quite useful since it gives
> you some more info about the type. For example:
> 
> typedef string ContentType;
> 
> which defines ContentType to be string. An generic editor can use this meta
> info to
> provide specialized editing features (maybe provide a list of mime types).
> 

It wouldn't be a generic editor if it contained:

 if (typename == "ContentType")
    display_list_of_mime_types();

if would be an editor with special-case knowledge of this config
setting. ;-)

Havoc