Editing gconf

Editing gconf

Posted Feb 26, 2008 17:06 UTC (Tue) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510)
In reply to: Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams by dcbw
Parent article: Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams

I think he wants a schema so that he can use XML tools to edit the GConf database. He should probably be talking to gconfd instead, however we all like using text files the way they were intended to be modified on Unix, with an editor. Perhaps gconf should detect this using fstat, etc. In general modifying a gconf entry with an editor means you kill gconfd and the application that you are configuring, edit, and restart gconfd and the application. I went through this recently when some spurious gconf data caused my laptop keyboard to be repeatedly locked in NUM-shift, which made it impossible to even use the shell from X, I had to use a console terminal interface to recover from this.

Bruce

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