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The Case for Gconf

Submitted by Eugenia on Tue, 2004-06-15 03:23. FreeDesktop.org

Dr. Janne Mor�n is explaining the problem of the .dot files and the solution found through GConf and the gconf-tools.

The Idea is good, but the implementation is wrong!

Submitted by nosrail on Tue, 2004-06-15 04:01.

Currently there is a lot of bad in the implementation, I have complained many times about it but always get flamed. Here are the three main problems at the moment.

1) Its currently a GNOME technology

2) The primary manipulation interface looks like the registry editor (which is BAD.

3) The GNOME HIG is confusing and thats why people complain about options being hidden and having to use gconf-edtitor (see 2).

What needs to happoen to make GConf great isto rewrite gconf to remove GNOME depandancies and make it a Freedesktop.org standard and encourage everyone including Mozilla, KDE, XFCE, OpenOffice.org etc to use it. Then dump gconf-editor and replace it with an sane UI. Finally, amend the HIG to stop abuse of hiding ESSENTIAL OPTIONS such as metacity low resources mode and browser nautilus.

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