Re: gnome-properties.

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 14 Dec 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> fflewddur <fflewddur dropline net> writes:
> > well, i managed to get a basic display up for the cpuload applet, and
> > now i'm moving the preferences away from gnome-config.  havoc, is there
> > a particular place where applets should store settings under gconf?  i
> > was going to use /desktop/gnome/applets/multiload.  thanks,
> > 
> 
> It shouldn't be /desktop/gnome - /desktop/gnome is for desktop-wide
> settings. Apps including applets would use /apps/whatever.
> /desktop/gnome is for the control center and libgnomeui for example.
> 
> However applets are more complex - they're going to get a per-instance
> config prefix from the panel. I don't think the panel has implemented
> this yet for GNOME 2.

Docs for how this is supposed to work is in doc/panel-session-handling.txt 
in gnome-core

/ Alex