Re: GConf and bonobo-config - some ideas

[Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com>]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:29:12PM +0200, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> Elliot wrote:
> 
> > The basic motivation for schemas is:
> >  - many apps may use a single config key (e.g. the control-center
> >    and gnome-libs used to share several, and we fixed several
> >    bugs when their defaults were out of sync)
> 
> You mean the arbitrary mapping between a key and the associated schema,
> i.e. many keys want to use a single schema? Can you provide some examples
> where this is useful?

If I understand their intent this would correspond to a set of
applications that all shared the same schema for part of their
configuration.

eg having a standard gnome-office schema for common features that
are set on a per app basis like user_level.