Re: gnome-config problems

[Marc Ewing <marc redhat com>]

Miguel de Icaza <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx> writes:
> > 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?
> 
> The problem with the config code right now is not in the backend, it
> is on the path parsing routines that decide what is the last key and
> what is not.  

Right, I gathered that, but someone mentioned arrays as well.
There was also the general observation that the current API may
have too many ties to the filesystem.  Since it looked like there
might need to be a change in the API I was just proposing an
improved and more flexible backend along with it.  One that
could handle arrays of any type, transparent i18n, etc.  Marry
that with an improved API and it'd make for a clean extensible
system.

-Marc