Re: dbus and GNOME 2.8

["Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro" <gjc inescporto pt>]

A Seg, 2004-04-05 às 16:58, Paolo Maggi escreveu:
> On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 17:25, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> > A Seg, 2004-04-05 às 14:25, Paolo Maggi escreveu:
> > > Hi guys,
> > > 	as I wrote in
> > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-January/msg00495.html
> > > I'm working on a new implementation and a new API for egg-recent that I
> > > hope to have ready in time for 2.7.0 or 2.7.1 so that it can be
> > > evaluated for inclusion in 2.8.
> > 
> >   BTW, is there a reason why recent files isn't just a gconf key?
> > 
> >   Regards,
> 
> >From http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ :
> 
> "Do not store anything but preferences in GConf. Documents, session
> state, random data blobs do not belong in GConf. Stuff breaks if you do
> this. Moreover, THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT IT'S EVEN POSSIBLE TO WRITE
> TO THE GCONF DATABASE. Which means you may not use GConf as an IPC
> mechanism or when it's required to be able to store a piece of data."

  I think that the disclaimer "THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT IT'S EVEN
POSSIBLE TO WRITE TO THE GCONF DATABASE" is not very reasonable.  I
think GConf should provide a better service than this.  I am excluding
lock-down feature, of course.  Perhaps it makes sense that "recent
files" can be locked-down as well, under some rather extreme
circumstances. :)

  I also think that "recent files" is a desktop-wide preference.  It is
certainly not any of (Documents, session state, random data blobs).

  Regards.

-- 
Gustavo João Alves Marques Carneiro
<gjc inescporto pt> <gustavo users sourceforge net>
The universe is always one step beyond logic.