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Cleanup your GNOME GConf database

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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.

Are we recreating Windows

Are we recreating Windows Regisrry all over again?

Why would that be a problem? It works extremely well in Windows, and it's a clean architecture.

The only problem we have is that we don't have a system wide registry, only desktop-wide, but that can not easily be fixed.