Re: GNOME registry

[Dirk Luetjens <dirk Elfe lfm RWTH-Aachen DE>]

hi,

Rowan van der Molen <bigsmoke@usa.net> writes:

> At 03:23 31-12-98 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >You've got to be kidding. They obviously can't PREVENT non-GNOME
> >applications from reading the registry. But wtf would another application
> >WANT to mess with the registry? I think this 'this feature should be in
> >the operating system rather than GNOME' line of thinking is sort of
> >impractical. Furthermore, I believe GNOME shouldn't be going around the
> >system creating things that aren't obviously GNOME-related; otherwise
> >you're going to end up with a lot of apparent garbage and I think that's
> >something that we'd all like to do without.
> >
> I furmulated myself wrong. I just meant that I don't want GNOME to have
> it's own way of storing data instead of making data usefull to other apps as 
> well (CORBA) 

half a year ago, I looked through the COAS program, which is intended
to be Linux configuration manager. There although was a question like:

When I configure my mice on /dev/psaux for XFree86, is it possible,
that all other configuration modules, like the one for gpm, share this
data?

I think they had a solution for this, but I can't remember. So perhaps 
it is wise to look through their white papers, how they handled all
the configuration managment.It can be found at www.coas.org or
developer.coas.org.

I have never used linuxconf. Perhaps this one is a candidate, too.

Dirk