Re: gconfd and multiple machines

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

> As I was saying the other day, I don't think "as fast as you can"
> is necessary to get a corrupt database.
> 
> The best that writing the files atomically does is give you coherency
> between the keys in a single directory. But that isn't enough:
> it should be easy, for instance, to get
> apps/gnome-terminal/default_profile pointing at a non-existent profile.

At which point we're stuck with:
1. people might corrupt their configs
or
2. or use the orbit connecting over arbitrary tcpip ports b/t machines
that may or may not be able to talk to one another (the afs example)


I'm not sure automatic application notification is worth this.

-sv