Re: gnome-config problems

[Marc Ewing <marc redhat com>]

Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu> writes:
> On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Marc Ewing wrote:
> 
> > How important is it to have the config files text based (as in editable
> > with a text editor)?  If I offered a solution along the lines of a
> > "database" (as referenced above) that could hold integer, string, and
> > binary data, and arrays of those, along with command line utilities to
> > query and modify them, would that be acceptable?
> 
> People have horror stories about the Windows registry, and do not wish to
> reproduce it.
> 
> What I have suggested to Miguel is to allow plugging in backends to the
> gnome_config routines - for example, I'm wanting an LDAP backend to allow
> network transparency...
> 
> Like ewt was saying on IRC, you could always just change headerRead()
> and headerWrite() to read & write text files, and then use the other
> header routines in the rest of the gnome_config routines.

Sure.  You'd have to come up with a syntax that might be a little
cumbersome, but it wouldn't be too hard.  Are people attached to
the current syntax of the config files?

I haven't heard much comment on this - is this worth doing?

-Marc