Re: [GNOME VFS] Re: Daemons [Was: gob inside gnome-vfs ...]

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Soeren Sandmann">

> > And doesnt GConf already give you all of those things?  Has anyone
> > thought about using that for storing metadata?
> 
> I was thinking that too. In fact, to me GConf seems useful for all kinds
> of data that needs to be persistent across application invocation, but
> which doesn't have to have an associated file name that the user knows
> about.

That's what they said about the registry, and look what happened. :-)

Let's not fan the fire of commentary about GConf being like the Windows
Registry by doing silly things with it, and repeating errors past.

- Jeff

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