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Cleanup your GNOME GConf database

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2007-06-13 09:07. GNOME
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The other day I stumbled upon this neat tool that helps cleanup your GConf registry, called GConf Cleaner. While GNOME registry size isn't nowhere near the size of Windows registry, and thus shouldn't slow your computer too much, it's still nice to have a tool that cleans unused and obsolete entries.

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gconf-cleaner is a Google Summer of Code project.

I suppose this is the time

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Wed, 2007-06-13 12:17.

I suppose this is the time to rethink the whole GConf "little pieces of XML" concept. Are we recreating Windows Regisrry all over again? Well, not quite, since we are not keeping it all in a single binary file. But other problems are here. We are still having a place where a whole bunch of non-human-readable configuration is stored without any way for the user to make sense of it without a spacial application. And no, I do not consider GConf XML to be readable.

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