I'm quite aware of the gconftool-2 cli abilities. My gripe is and will likely continue that by having it centralized it makes the settings much harder to work with than is needed. By saving things in xml format it add a needless layer of textual beauracracy that is better handled by a well designed foo.conf.template file.<br>
<br>I am not a fan of xml. I don't see xml as _the_solution_ for all things data. Inheritable configuration settings do not require a cascading stylesheet of open/close tags. It encourages far too much replication of data (setting "foo" is used in both container "bar" and "baz" which are not related in anyway so <uses>foo</uses> must be entered twice when a simply foo=1 or foo=true would have sufficed).<br>
<br>All hail the simple setting=value configuration format!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Michael Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><p>Oh, this is surprising coming from you. The GUI for gconf came after the CLI tools. Say "man -k gconf".</p>
<p>Also, using gconf's command line utility, which is quite powerful, you can remove a tree of settings easily. Again, read the man page for it.</p>
<p>Now, if your distro doesn't include the CLI tools for it, that's their fault, not gconf's.</p>
<p>Oh and do some more reading up on gconf. It is actually quite elegant, and the only thing it has as a similarity to the Windows Registry is that it holds configuration data. Everything else about it is far, far superior.</p>
<p>--<br>
Sent from my ADP1 running Android 2.1</p>
<p></p><blockquote type="cite"><div class="im">On May 18, 2010 10:57 AM, "Jim Kinney" <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
<p><font color="#500050"><div class="im">On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Jim Philips <<a href="mailto:briarpatch.jim@gmail.com" target="_blank">briarpatch.jim@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>><br>><br></div>> On Tue, May ...</font></p><div class="im"><div><br>Probably more of the same. Gnome is _very_ configurable just not from a command line. They chose the nearly-all-gui route a long time ago. <br>
</div></div><p><font color="#500050"><div class="im">><br>
><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Ale mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org" target="_blank">Ale@ale.org</a><br></div>> <a href="http://mail." target="_blank">http://mail.</a>..</font></p>
</div><br><br clear="all">
<p><font color="#500050"><div class="im"><br>-- <br>-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br>Actively in pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness <br></div>Doing pretty well o...</font></p><div class="im"><br>_______________________________________________<br>
Ale mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org" target="_blank">Ale@ale.org</a><br>
<a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>
See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br>
<a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br>
<br></div></blockquote>
<br>_______________________________________________<br>
Ale mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a><br>
<a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>
See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br>
<a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br>Actively in pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness <br>Doing pretty well on all 3 pursuits <br><br>