Re: GConf and bonobo-config - some ideas

[Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com>]

James Henstridge wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
>
> > Still not convinced, because I would use a fixed key and a list to
> > store that. Another example?
>
> How about this as an example:
>
> You have a program that supports multiple profiles for a user
> (netscape/mozilla comes to mind.  I have also seen some mail programs that
> do this).  You want to store the config data for a profile as multiple
> keys (maybe serialising the object is not convenient, or you don't want to
> write a property bag editor for a large complex object or something).  In
> this case, the you would want to apply the same schema to all the keys
> representing the different profiles, and the number of keys (and maybe the
> key names -- using the profile names as key names would be convenient) are
> user defined.

The link approach would works perfectly in this situation.

> As another example:
>
> Your application saves its session information with gconf.  The key it
> saves the data under is dependent on which session was running (we can't
> save under the same key name, or multi session support will break).

Using the link approach would also work here (link/mount another database
somewhere inside the configuration tree).

- Dietmar