RE: GNOME registry

["Joshua R. Prismon" <josh narf com>]

At 02:29 PM 12/31/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>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.

If you build it (and do a good hob of it). They will come. 
Worse comes to worse, we should be able to add 
later services (ie, a specific way to look at configuration,
or a translate) if we handle th abstration right.