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+ <B>Wolfgang Bornath</B>
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+ <I>Tue Jun 7 11:08:11 CEST 2011</I>
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+<PRE>2011/6/7 Olav Vitters &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">olav at vitters.nl</A>&gt;:
+&gt;<i> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 10:33:42AM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> My personal killer of Gnome3 is the switch from normal editable
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> configuration files to a kind of registry, to be edited with a special
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> editor. This is a no-go. Normal text files for configuration is one of
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> the common basics of Linux (and most *nix based systems). Each rescue
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> system, be it as small as possible comes with a &#160;text editor (I've
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> never seen any system without vi) to edit configuration files and thus
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> mend a broken system. This will not be possible with Gnome3.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Correct me if I'm wrong, but this was what the Gnome people told me in Berlin.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Glib has had gsettings for a while. The default backend is 'dconf'; it
+</I>&gt;<i> uses binary files to store configuration values as to *greatly* speed up
+</I>&gt;<i> reads (and thus your login).
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Before gsettings, we had XML files, which you can indeed change, but
+</I>&gt;<i> only when GNOME is not running. Doing that while GNOME was running will
+</I>&gt;<i> likely break stuff. The way to interact with them was 'gconftool-2'; not
+</I>&gt;<i> by using an editor.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> In any case, gsettings is not GNOME 3 specific. Run e.g.:
+</I>&gt;<i> &#160;gsettings list-schemas
+</I>&gt;<i> to see what programs already have been using gsettings on your system.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> The port to gsettings happened during the last few GNOME 2.x releases,
+</I>&gt;<i> so it is not GNOME 3 specific and you're likely using it already.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> FWIW, if you personally do not want to use the dconf backend, you can
+</I>&gt;<i> choose something else using the GSETTINGS_BACKEND environment variable.
+</I>&gt;<i> E.g. 'gconf' exists. Although it is perfectly usable, suggest to stick
+</I>&gt;<i> with things that everyone else uses; less likely to encounter
+</I>&gt;<i> bugs/problems.
+</I>
+Ok, all this was new for me. I am but an occasional user of Gnome and
+I automatically assumed that Gnome has the same basic paradigms as all
+the rest of Linux. If this is not the case then it's not Gnome3 I will
+stay away from but Gnome in general.
+
+Thx for enlightening me.
+
+--
+wobo
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