Re: Limits of GConf

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

iain <iain prettypeople org> writes: 
> No, no. I wasn't blaming you, but until we do have this API, I think I'm
> still going to use GConf to store system state. It's easy, works and
> isn't going to disappear any time soon.
> 

Well, you can do that, but it doesn't "work." Read-only configurations
of gconf are allowed, and it's a bug wherever gnome doesn't support
it. Moreover most of the time when storing state, going out-of-process
to do so is just silly.

Havoc