Re:GConf (was Re: [gnome-love] Start-Menu)

["pbaena" <pbaena uol com ar>]

> > Let me tell you my own impression on GConf. I'm a
programmer, not a
> > clueless computer illiterate, yet I see gconf-
editor and in the tree I
> > see a bunch of application settings, and a node
that says schemas.
> > What is 'schemas'?? I know the definition of schema
because I know a
> > little of XML (most users won't know), but yet I
wonder what the hell
> > is doing that node there. I explore a little bit
and see lots of keys
> > and I wonder why I can't do anything with them, why
I have some
> > duplicates of some of the application settings and
why I have no help
> > anywhere on what they are (somebody told me
about 'locking down'
> > settings, but I don't know if this has something to
do with it, and
> > I'm not interested in finding out, because I don't
need that feature).
> >
>
> This is not an inherent problem to GConf, but gconf-
editor which has a
> bad ui...
>
>
> > I am not against these features, but one should
have a simplified
> > version like two functions, one to set a setting
and other to retrieve
> > it. That's it.
>
> If you only want to store and retrieve settings, you
don't need to
> install a schema at all. The schema's main purpose is
to define default
> values if some prefs in your app need default values.
It can also be
> used by sysadmins to lock certain config options to
some values, but
> it's up to them to write the corresponding xml file
if they want to do
> that.
> So it seems your main problems with GConf comes from
the lack of good
> doc and copy and paste code to install a schema,
along with some good
> explanations about the schema purpose :)
> And the ability of GConf to notify apps when a pref
changes just rock :)
> Hope that helps,
>
> Christophe

Yes! It helped a lot! I totally missed that when I
started using GConf.

When I get my internet connection back, I'll contribute
some documentation.

Thank you very much
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