[789] in Athena User Interface
Re: gconf: fact or fantasy?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Wed May 30 10:50:04 2001
From: Dan Winship <danw@ximian.com>
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Date: 30 May 2001 19:49:12 +0500
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> For example, it seems to be the only app using OAF instead of GNORBA.
The only major app that is shipped as part of the official GNOME 1.4
platform, yes. But that's mostly because GNOME 1.4 was mostly "GNOME 1.2
plus Nautilus". Evolution and other not-quite-released-yet things use it
too.
> 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?
It is another thing that is not yet used by many released GNOME apps,
yes. But, like oaf, it has been in development for the past year and is
being used by lots of unreleased projects, so it's not like it was
completely untested until the Nautilus relea
-- Dan
