Re: gconf

[Keith Sharp <kms passback co uk>]

On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 21:19 +0800, Wang Qiang wrote:
> help!
> what's the relationship between the following directories?
> /etc/gconf/schemas
> /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults
> 
> i think the relationship is:
> programs stores their schema files in
> /etc/gconf/schemas,when the system is started gconfd reads
> info from /etc/gconf/schemas and generates the corresponding
> .xml files and stores them in /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults.
> when the user first run the program,the program searches
> /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults and gets the default info,if
> the  user does some change to the default settings the info
> will be stored in $home/.gconf/.
> 
> so,what will happen when i remove some .xml files in
> /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults.
> i thought a new .xml file could be generated,but things
> seems didn't go that way.And i'm sure it's the first time i
> run that program.

You would be better asking on the gconf-list:

	http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gconf-list

or the gnome-general list:

	http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list

Keith.