Re: Getting libgnome* into shape

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org> writes: 
> > You added an explicit GConf dependency to all GNOME 2 applications -
> > that's different to the implicit dependency through bonobo-config
> > which we had before.
> 
> GConf is required as backend for all GNOME 2 desktop apps. Otherwise
> they won't integrate properly from a sysadmin standpoint.  Bonobo-conf
> can't be used in non-wrapper mode for GNOME 2.

It can be used in non-wrapper mode and it needs to be - for instance to
read your old GNOME 1.x configuration files - or because the application
author wants to use a different moniker (Evolution, for example).

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Martin Baulig
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