Re: is that effective to store big list of strings?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Kang Jeong-Hee <Keizi mail co kr> writes:
> I'm making an applet to play music files.
> and I wonder if it's effective to store the playlist in gconf.
> the list may be a big length, even bigger than any other schema that gconf ever had, as you can suspect.
> so it's hard to decide to invoke gconf or not.
> 

No, potentially large data should not go in gconf. Just simple
preferences.

> if not gconf, what util of gnome shall I use?
> I know .m3u is really simple and easy.
> but I wanna experiment gnome modules as many as I can.
> gnome-vfs is the answer?

I would just store an XML or GMarkup file, or use .m3u.

Havoc