Re: init clarity needed

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org> writes:
> > Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:
> > 
> > > If we allow a choice here it is broken. config: should simply point to
> > > GConf and apps should use config:. Apps that want something else
> > > should hardcode xmldb:, but there shouldn't be special support for
> > > that in GNOME, because we don't encourage it.
> > 
> > I changed the default of the properties to be "config:" and
> > "config:/gnome/desktop", but I'd like to keep these properties. If apps
> > want something else, they need to hardcode it in the gnome_program_init()
> > call, but these properties will make it very easy to do so.
> > 
> 
> That makes sense, I just want to avoid having a mandatory flag that
> forces people to hardcode one or the other.

Yeah, the properties are totally optional and you shouldn't use them unless
you have a reason to do so.

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Martin Baulig
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