[ale] I am so tired of Linux Fanatics

Michael B. Trausch mike at trausch.us
Wed Jul 7 14:47:28 EDT 2010


On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 14:41 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 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. 

That's just the default gconf storage backend.

That said, I haven't had a chance to see what dconf is doing---that's
the system that is replacing gconf in future versions of GNOME and GTK+
applications.

	--- Mike



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