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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.

Re: wrong location, bad format, doesn't work

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2004-06-16 15:23.

XML is an easily grepped pure text format that can be modified with a simple editor.

XML is bad for humans. Specially Gconf's unindented, uncommented XML. It can be modified with a text editor, but not as easily as a dotfile.

For most configuration files, having something as complex as XML is completely unnecessary.

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