Re: Option parser

[Joel Becker <jlbec evilplan org>]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 12:38:58PM +0900, Ryan McDougall wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-29-07 at 22:21 +0200, Anders Carlsson wrote:
> Excuse my ignorance, but wasn't GConf supposed to fix this kind of
> thing? If you need to change a GUI app's options via command line
> doesn't it make sense to use a CLI version of gconf-editor?

	Not every GTK+ app is Gnome.  Not every GLib app is GUI.  And
some times you want to override the default, even in Gnome.  Last, but
certainly not least, a "user" should not really be using GConf editor, I
would think.

Joel
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