RE: GNOME registry

[bratsche dfw net]

It would be handy to be able to configure everything from one location.
To this end, I would love to have something like a control-center capplet
to configure them someday. But Apache, sendmail, and all the other
programs we're used to using already have standard locations for storing
their data and your chances of persuading the authors or maintainers of
those to optionally store their data in the GNOME registry is 0% or very
close. =)
I think making requests such as these from GNOME is asking too much.
However, making a GNOMEified configuration program or capplet or something
would be cool. I don't know enough about either sendmail or Apache
configuration to even be useful in helping something like that, but if you
do I'm sure it would be appreciated by many.

Cody

On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Fox, Kevin M wrote:

> 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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