[ale] I am so tired of Linux Fanatics

[Jim Kinney]

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:

> On Wed July 7 2010, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > Oh crap!
> > gconf.
> > stupid gnome.
> but I have learned to LIKE gnome! along with a few KDE apps:) I run gnome,
> my
> wife runs KDE ( DEBIAN). I'm afraid to upgrade to KDE4 because I'm not
> familiar with it, and I know it would freak her out!
>
> wait, what? what's gconf? what do you DO with it?
>
> this reminds me of the registry:
> $ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome
>
yeah. gconf/registry
gnome _used_ to use a conf file in the .gnome dir for each desktop applet
and the desktop env in general. But _someone_ <rolls eyes> thought a single
chain of xml would be better.

at least it's not a proprietary binary format.....

but this is my background setting:

<gconf>
        <entry name="primary_color" mtime="1273516399" type="string">
                <stringvalue>#FFFFFF</stringvalue>
        </entry>
        <entry name="secondary_color" mtime="1273516399" type="string">
                <stringvalue>#000000</stringvalue>
        </entry>
        <entry name="color_shading_type" mtime="1273516399" type="string">
                <stringvalue>solid</stringvalue>
        </entry>
        <entry name="picture_filename" mtime="1273516399" type="string">

<stringvalue>/home/jkinney/Images/spiral_galaxy.jpg</stringvalue>
        </entry>
        <entry name="picture_options" mtime="1273516426" type="string">
                <stringvalue>centered</stringvalue>
        </entry>
</gconf>

in ancient days gone by it was:

background_image = ~/Images/spiral_galaxy.jpg
centered = yes
color1 = "#FFFFFF"
color2 = "#000000"
shading = solid




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