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

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Dick Porter wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 12:39:38PM -0700, Seth Nickell wrote:
> > On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 02:33, Dick Porter wrote:
> > >
> > > And doesnt GConf already give you all of those things?  Has anyone thought
> > > about using that for storing metadata?
> >
> > Yes, except we found a few cases where you'd want to attach larger files
> > as metadata (for example, an icon), and GConf did not seem appropriate
> > for storing this sort of data.
>
> So wouldnt it make sense to fix/extend/whatever GConf to cope with larger
> blobs of data than write a whole new system?

	Or just save the files in ~/.gnome2/big-blobs-of-data and
reference them in gconf ?

Good Luck,
Mark.