Re: [Usability]From application- to user-centric configuration

[David Moles <david moles vykor com>]

On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 23:32, lukekendall optushome com au wrote:
> On  9 Mar, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> >  However gconf can easily use a more common solution as backend, if the 
> >  more common solution would need to support dynamic change notification 
> >  so can't be just plain text files. 
> 
> Why can't dynamic change notification coexist with plain text files for
> holding configuration?

Do you have a daemon polling the FS to see if the files have changed so
everyone can be notified dynamically?