[788] in Athena User Interface
gconf: fact or fantasy?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Stone)
Tue May 29 18:47:28 2001
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 18:47:24 EDT
From: Larry Stone <lcs@MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: <lcs@MIT.EDU>
To: aui@MIT.EDU
Message-ID: <CMM.0.90.4.991176444.lcs@defiant.mit.edu>
So I've been noodling around with nautilus in my spare time and noticing
it depends on all sorts of exotic components and/or infrastructure which
are really part of "GNOME: The Next Generation" rather than the solid,
stable, well-tested existing GNOME (everything is relative). For example,
it seems to be the only app using OAF instead of GNORBA.
It also uses gconf as a "configuration database" manager. The writeup
about gconf, e.g. http://developer.gnome.org/feature/current/index.html
implies that lies under all of GNOME (much as the hated Windows Registry
does, only more competently), but I think they have the tense wrong. GConf
is another of those things that fell through a hole in the time-space
contiuum and really belongs in the future, isn't it?
Thanks for confirming my guess,
-- Larry
