RE: GNOME registry

["Fox, Kevin M" <kmfox bhi010 bhi-erc com>]

All I am saying, is if we want to implament something like the registry, it
would be "a good thing" to be able to configure sendmail, ftp, apache, and
other non gnome programs the same way. A standard "everything" config
library would work well for this.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	bratsche@dfw.net [SMTP:bratsche@dfw.net]
> Sent:	Thursday, December 31, 1998 12:24 AM
> To:	Rowan van der Molen
> Subject:	RE: GNOME registry
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Rowan van der Molen wrote:
> 
> > >I think somthing like this needs to be a system wide thing, not just
> GNOME.
> > 
> > Yes, I will kill all the GNOME developers pesonally if they are going to
> > implement something
> > usable for GNOME only.
> > 
> > 
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