Re: TODO #1: GNOME 1.x and 2.0 interoperability

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On 15 Jun 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org> writes: 
> > c) GCONF - GConf is optional in GNOME 2 since we're using bonobo-config,
> >            but it needs to be fixed anyways. At the moment, you cannot start
> >            any GNOME 1.x applications while the GNOME 2 gconfd is running and
> >            vice-versa.
> 
> I believe this will just magically work once the oafd thing works.
> There may be some minor issues to sort out but I'm happy to fix them
> once I can get a working ORBit/OAF setup.
> 
> However, you are on crack about GConf being optional - bonobo-config
> allows a different backend, but we don't currently have a different
> backend that does the desktop-wide notification, etc., and it is not
> trivial to write one. So GConf is only theoretically optional.
>

And even if somebody did make bonobo-config able to use something else,
they would similarily have to visit gnome-vfs (on which many things
depend) and change it aswell.

> 
> Havoc
> 

	Sander

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