Re: [Nautilus-list] Galeon, Nautilus, Mozilla must share profile information

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

Steve Fox wrote:

> On 07 Jul 2001 23:36:56 -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
>
> > I propose that Galeon, Nautilus, Mozilla, and other embedded Mozilla
> > implementations should share profile information.  I find it very silly
> > that I should have to change my proxy preferences, for example, in three
> > different places.  It is also silly to have three out-of-sync bookmark
> > lists, and three different copies of the history.
> >
> > This is bad for the user.  The preferences and profiles should be central.
> > Please to discuss.
>
> Actually, this should be all stored in one GConf location, with it
> configured in the Control Center. But as the saying goes, "patches are
> welcome".

Errr . . .no.  Mozilla isn't a gnome project and probably won't ever be. 
There is no compelling reason for them to use Gconf.  Mozilla is 
intended to be as cross-platform as possible and to run with very 
minimal external dependancies.  Yes, Gconf is intended to be used for 
purposes outside of gnome as well, but realistically it isn't there.

Don't expect them to bend to you.  They have no real reason to do this.

-b


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