Re: dbus and GNOME 2.8

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

A Seg, 2004-04-05 às 17:32, Paolo Maggi escreveu:
> Hi,
> 
> > > > 
> > > >   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. :)
> 
> Well, I think the disclaimer is referred to the possibility of locking
> down some user-preferences.
> 
> Do you guys think that locking-down "recent-files" is a feature we
> should take into consideration?
> Could you please suggest use cases for this feature?

  No and no.  I was exagerating.  I don't really see any benefit.

> 
> > 
> >   I also think that "recent files" is a desktop-wide preference.  It is
> > certainly not any of (Documents, session state, random data blobs).
> 
> I don't think "recent files" is a desktop-wide preference. I see it is a
> state information. But this is only a detail.
> 
> The real problem is that I don't think gconf is the right technology to
> use in this case because, as Luis said, the interoperability with other
> desktops (KDE, etc) and apps (OOo, Mozilla, etc) is  really important.

  OK.  I guess it's hard for me to see GNOME sacrificing its
architecture over and over again for the sake of interoperability. :|

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