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gconf uses flat text files

gconf uses flat text files

Posted May 19, 2004 15:30 UTC (Wed) by emk (subscriber, #1128)
In reply to: Spatial Is Not Easier by LogicG8
Parent article: The Spatial Way

Not to rain on anybody's parade, but gconf stores all your preferences in flat text files (at least the last time I looked). And furthermore, it actually has full documentation for most of them, right in the GUI editor. There's a lot of differences between the registry and gconf, and nearly all of them are in gconf's favor.

gconf's a little bit arcane, certainly, but many of the criticisms people are raising are factually incorrect.

I've used Gnome since about version 0.20, but 2.4 and 2.6 are the first versions I've really liked.


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