Re: GConf design goals.

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com> writes: 
> We have something like a plugin system for editors in bonobo-conf,
> so that you can register editor widgets for specific types. This way
> it is possible to write a "generic" configuration editor which can
> edit registered types with highly specialized editors.
> 

As has already been pointed out, that isn't a solution to the
generic-editing problem, because it does not allow generic command
line tools or scripts.

Havoc