Re: Debian, too easy?
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:26:32PM +1000, Russell spake thusly:
> Linux kind of has a scattering of registries already, eg, termcap/terminfo,
> xf86config, /etc/X11/app-defaults, /etc/X11/xkb, various other files in /etc...
> I'd think a standardized unix registry system would be quite doable. It's just
> like the fhs, but for app. settings. However, if the registry is system-wide,
> then i guess a root process needs to run it, which means there might be
> security problems if users wan't to save personal preferences. Maybe
> users should have local copies of registry parts that they need.
This is how gconf works almost exactly. It seems quite good.
I still don't *like* the idea of a registry... but I think that's mainly
the sour taste left in my mouth after looking at windows registries for
far too long.
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Jon-o Addleman
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