Re: ORBit-like /tmp functions

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 09:48 +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote:

> Another potential problem is when /tmp is not readable (don't laugh, we
> have this settings in paranoia mode), which can cause nice crash in
> either GTK+ or ORBit :)

1. Does this setting make sense?  Why would you not want /tmp to be
readable?

2. What would happen if GConf just stored its lock and IOR file in
~/.gconfd/something?  Is there a special reason why it uses /tmp?

  Federico