Re: Module proposal: dconf

[Ryan Lortie <desrt desrt ca>]

On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 17:04 +0100, Michael Meeks wrote:
> 	So - at this point, I'd like to advertise FUSE gratuitously[1]; what
> with the ease of writing a FUSE filing-system, and the fact that we have
> a GVFS fuse mount already; it should be near-trivial to write a 'vi
> compatible' FUSE plugin there, that would show the configuration data as
> ".ini style" or "fugly verbose gconf XML style" or whatever ;-)
> 
> 	At least, that's ok for the user XML, perhaps for the system, it's
> necessary to type some unbelievably verbose mount command-line to get
> the same effect - but hey; sysadmins are good at that right ? :-)
> 
> 	That way we can have a sane data format, and the appearance of a text
> storage (and backup / restore / whatever) as well. Of course this should
> also take a clueful hacker all of - oh an hour or two to write ;-)

Thanks for cutting to the core of the issue.  This made me smile :)