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Spatial Nautilus and GConfSpatial Nautilus and GConfPosted May 19, 2004 14:52 UTC (Wed) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285)Parent article: The Spatial Way I happen to really like the new Nautilus. The thin window border that doesn't get in the way and the fact that windows stay where I left them, organized the way I want them is great. There are a couple of things I would change about Nautilus. It isn't spatial enough. Using a symlink or .desktop link to access the same directory as a different name gives a different window layout. That should be fixed. Also, I want an option to always close the parent folder when I open a subfolder. As for GConf, I like it. It is somewhat like the Windows Registry, but Gnome has taken the idea and improved it. A lot. One improvement is that keys can have documentation attached to them. Another improvement is that the data IS stored in flat text files, not in a fragile binary format. It's in the .gconf directory. No, you can't edit them with a text editor while gconfd is running, but gconftool works. Hating GConf because it has options arranged in a tree structure and looks similar to the Windows Registry is ridiculous. What's better about older Linux configuration files? dhcpd.conf is different from samba.conf which is in yet another format from ntp.conf. It is difficult to enforce system or network wide defaults. Every program has to write its own config file parser. GConf is just better.
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