On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 13:45 -0300, bulia byak wrote:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...> wrote:
The most important issue so far is running Gnome and KDE on the same machine. I'm not sure how to solve this yet. One possible dump prefs to the XML file (it's easier to write import/export routines than to implement everything using the XML document) and store a timestamp in the GConf database, then use the source that is more recent - this way GConf would be used in Gnome but the XML file would still be available. However, this gets complicated.
Oh my. Don't we have enough trouble with multiple platforms, do we really need to pile the KDE/Gnome troubles upon ourselves? One bright spot so far was that, whenever I need to troubleshoot someone's Inkscape problem, I could tell them to find their preferences.xml and edit it in a simple way, and that worked with every version on every platform. Moving this file to ~/.config in 0.47 was already trouble enough, can we please stop here and not go into anything potentially much worse?
Perhaps we should add a command line option to dump the configuration then. I really do think that GConf provides a ton of advantages and should be a goal long term. I do believe that GConf is running on Windows though, so it should be the same tools regardless of platform.
All in all, I think it's worth waiting as it's likely that GConf will be replaced here shortly with something that is DBus based rather than CORBA based. Then would be a good time to switch rather than switching to something with a limited lifespan.
--Ted