Re: GNOME registry

[Havoc Pennington <rhpennin midway uchicago edu>]

On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> Does gnome_config_* do file locking?
>

I don't know. 
 
> 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.
> 

If you want to get elaborate like that, Tom Tromey (I'm pretty sure) had a
nice plan to redo the gnome-config stuff along these lines. I guess he's
been busy, but I'm sure he'd be glad to talk to you about it.

Havoc