The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 16, 2011 2:20 UTC (Wed) by foom (subscriber, #14868)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience by jcm
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

> On the d/gconf front, I understand why it's not "just text files" (though these days we have all kinds of file monitoring and watching APIs that are getting a lot better for just using text files)

Except that KDE's kconfig has done exactly that for something like 10 years now: configs stored as plain text ".ini" files, and an efficient binary cache that is regenerated if you change the config files. It seemed to work fine for them...

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The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 16, 2011 9:14 UTC (Wed) by mjthayer (guest, #39183) [Link]

> Except that KDE's kconfig has done exactly that for something like 10 years now: configs stored as plain text ".ini" files, and an efficient binary cache that is regenerated if you change the config files. It seemed to work fine for them...

I seem to recall that one of the dconf selling points was that the storage backend was pluggable. Perhaps someone could write a backend that does the same thing as KDE, or even uses kconfig...