Re: [GNOME VFS] Re: Daemons [Was: gob inside gnome-vfs ...]

[Dick Porter <dick ximian com>]

On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 12:39:38PM -0700, Seth Nickell wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 02:33, Dick Porter wrote:
> > 
> > And doesnt GConf already give you all of those things?  Has anyone thought
> > about using that for storing metadata?
> 
> Yes, except we found a few cases where you'd want to attach larger files
> as metadata (for example, an icon), and GConf did not seem appropriate
> for storing this sort of data.

So wouldnt it make sense to fix/extend/whatever GConf to cope with larger
blobs of data than write a whole new system?

- Dick