Re: why bonobo-config

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Michael Meeks <michael ximian com> writes: 
>
> >        Yes - true, but the real issue here is maintainership - and it
> > seems that it is not possible to get changes into GConf[1],
>
> Many other people have had success getting changes in. *shrug*
>
> But I don't want to try and rehash old mail archives.
>
>
> > that it's
> > design is strongly based on a premis that CORBA shouldn't be exposed -
> > which is antithetical to the GNOME viewpoint. Luckily we don't have 6
> > extra layers of abstraction, just 1.
>
> Actually, it's antithetical to YOUR viewpoint, not the GNOME
> viewpoint.
>
> There are plenty of significant GNOME hackers that are not on board
> with the CORBA-everywhere plans that you have.  Personally I think we
> should be focusing on the end-user desktop.  Creating the ultimate
> CORBA-based app framework is interesting, but I don't think it's what
> GNOME should be about right now.
>
> For example, when the board met at GUADEC and discussed GNOME and what
> people thought its goals should be, this was not suggested by anyone
> as an important one.
>
> I'm not saying the board represents all GNOME hackers, just using it
> as an example of a bunch of GNOME people in a room together.
>
> Some people want to make nice apps with a good UI that work, and fix
> problems such as xalf, cut-and-paste, keyboard navigation, control
> center, etc. - the API churn caused by the push for CORBA everywhere
> just gets in the way. Look at all the posts here where people say "I
> don't give a damn about GConf vs. bonobo-config, I just want to know
> which one to use."

<nod>

Although I'll probably use GConf for my apps (because PonG is nice), it 
was said that Gnome would use bonobo_config with GConf as the backend. 
So let's go for that. In the end the result is the same, and Sun's GConf 
browser/editor will still work for sysadmins.

I think everybody is really getting bored by all this. Martin has been 
childish to start reverting all the changes in CVS, and Anders is guilty 
of making changes (or letting somebody make changes) to the libs when 
they were supposed to be frozen (although *some* of the changes made sense).

Get yourself together before the flamewar just leaves carbonated bodies 
on the battlefield.

Cheers

PS: I don't give a rat's ass about who started it, I just hate my 
mailbox being filled up with junk when I'm already busy being angry at 
the London transport system.

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/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net