Re: dbus and GNOME 2.8

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 11:58, Paolo Maggi wrote:
> "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."
> 

If talking about the future, maybe this could change, e.g.:
http://log.ometer.com/2004-03.html#1

Re: the rest of the thread, just using a database directly doesn't seem
right at all to me; you want a database via some kind of
structured/simplified abstraction such as Storage probably. But given
that you could use it to store all the desktop's data of all kinds.

As Seth explained it to me today Storage essentially is XML-type data
(tree of nodes with attributes) in queryable database form with change
notification. So this seems ideal for address books and all sorts of
other stuff. Unlike gconf, it would be be scalable even with lots of
data and documents and whatever in there.

But this needs to be well-baked and thought-through before we put it in
the desktop.

Havoc