Re: [g-a-devel] gnopernicus: srcore module - what is the function of srctrl.c

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Remus asked:

> Bill, why do you think that "is not the recommended way for applications
> to use gconf"? 
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/

Note that this document says, among other things,

"Do not store anything but preferences in GConf. Documents, session 
state, random data blobs do not belong in GConf. Stuff breaks if you do 
this. Moreover, /THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT IT'S EVEN POSSIBLE TO WRITE 
TO THE GCONF DATABASE/. Which means you /may not/ use GConf as an IPC 
mechanism or when it's /required/ to be able to store a piece of data."

There are lots of other gconf documents that make it clear that gconf 
should not be used for IPC communication between clients.  Some of the 
settings info that gnopernicus uses gconf for are, in my opinion, 
appropriate uses, but many of the uses are not, for instance lots of 
transient state information is stored in gconf by gnopernicus.

regards

Bill