Re: GConf and bonobo-config - some ideas

[Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com> writes:
> > Havoc Pennington wrote:
> >
> > > Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com> writes:
> > > > 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?
> > > >
> > >
> > > The intended purpose of that is dynamically-created keys. e.g. say you
> > > have a "session entry" for an app in the session; all such entries
> > > would have the same schema.
> > >
> > > When creating the dynamic key, apps have to specify the name of the
> > > schema to apply to it.
> >
> > I don't understand that. Please can you provide a more extensive
> > description of that feature, maybe with another example?
> >
>
> You may not know the names of all your keys in advance.
>
> e.g. the "recently used documents" feature I added to gnome-libs once
> (now removed due to not being finished) would create a key for each
> document, giving the keys globally unique names. Then you can't apply
> the schema at gnome-libs install time, you have to do it at key
> creation time.

Still not convinced, because I would use a fixed key and a list to store that. Another example?

- Dietmar