Re: GNOME registry

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik pobox com>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> > Does something like this exist already?
> >
> 
> You could implement it in a few minutes - just pick some file
> (~/.gnome/gnome-registry or something), then #define the prefix for
> that file in libgnome, and maybe #define some keys you want all apps to
> use, like email, etc.

Does gnome_config_* do file locking?


> The hard part is changing apps to use it. :-)

Yeah.:)  There should probably be some helper logic, to notify apps in
real-time if central data changes, that sort of thing.

Can this be done through CORBA?  Having a gnome-registry-server talk to
gnome_config_() might ease sharing problems, and allow for more dynamic
notification and sharing.

	Jeff