RE: GNOME registry

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

I have played with Linuxconf. It uses add in modules for each program you
want to configure.
I think it should be the other way around. The program, through the use of a
library or somthing, should save its config info in what ever fassion the
sysadmin wants to. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dirk Luetjens [SMTP:dirk@Elfe.lfm.RWTH-Aachen.DE]
> Sent:	Thursday, December 31, 1998 1:24 AM
> To:	Rowan van der Molen
> Subject:	Re: GNOME registry
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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