Re: Module proposal: dconf

[Jan Claeys <lists janc be>]

Op woensdag 14-10-2009 om 13:07 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Colin
Walters:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Alberto Ruiz <aruiz gnome org>
> wrote:
> > Large deployments shouldn't mess with the local users' configuration.
> > Probably specialized backends for GSettings like an APOC or plain LDAP
> > one would be a much better approach to manage large deployments.
> 
> Maybe; I am personally really skeptical in general of swapping out
> [local system] for [remote system] without significant engineering
> work in caching, latency, etc.
> 
> The laptop case of transient network disconnection is especially hard. 

Right, every remote configuration storage system needs some local
enforcement mechanism[0].  Not only for laptops but also for when a
smaller office loses its connection to the main site that hosts the LDAP
across the street, etc.


[0] this local mechanism could be in the GSettings backend, but if
multiple backends want to implement this, it might be useful to use a
common implementation somehow...

-- 
Jan Claeys