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The Case for Gconf

Submitted by Eugenia on Tue, 2004-06-15 03:23. FreeDesktop.org
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Dr. Janne Morén is explaining the problem of the .dot files and the solution found through GConf and the gconf-tools.

XML malady

Submitted by leandro on Tue, 2004-06-15 07:53.

XML is text markup.

It is not adequate for config files.

It makes them unnecessarily bloated, hierarchical, difficult to read, edit and validate.

Better solutions would be to use a slimmed-down PostgreSQL or — better — Ingres QUEL backend to Gnome Storage, or even better either a lightweight implementation of Tutorial D, or a lightweight clone of Alphora Dataphor.

As that would take some time, we could probably do with DBM, RDB or NoSQL for now.

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