Re: GConf

[Loban Rahman <loban enigma caltech edu>]

> > Your problem would be ORBit; it's the only dependency that hasn't been
> > ported. Other than that, a win32 port would probably be easy.
> 
> Actually, there's a link on the ORBit site that points to this:
> http://www.cpplover.pe.kr/Orbit/ORBit-0.5.1-win32.zip
> which is supposed to be a win32 port.
> 
> You could write your own simple wrapper that can handle the registry on
> win32 and GConf on *nix. Shouldn't be too difficult.

Actually, here is another idea. Havoc's feature Gnome article mentions
that GConf can have replacable backends. Currently the only backend
available is XML-formatted text files. How about someone writes
a win32-only backend that just uses the Window's registry.
This would ease porting apps from *nix to windows and vice-versa.

	= L

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