Re: dbus and GNOME 2.8

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hi,

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 17:36, jamie wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 16:58, Paolo Maggi wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 17:25, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> > > A Seg, 2004-04-05 s 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."
> > 
> > Ciao,
> > Paolo
> 
> Isn't it about time Gnome adopted and standardised on an RDBMS to help
> solve all these data storage problems?

	Its not a data storage problem. The problem relates to the fact that a
system administrator may choose to change

xml:readwrite:$(HOME)/.gconf

	in /etc/gconf/2/path to

xml:readonly:$(HOME)/.gconf

	in order to lock down a user preferences.

Cheers,
Mark.