[ale] Corrupted Desktop Terminal

[puck at dp-indexing.com (Jack Schneider)]

On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 13:56 -0500, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 12:52 -0500, Jay Goodman wrote:
> > Much of the Gnome stuff uses a registry type thing instead of good ole
> > fashion dotfiles.  Never tried it and I take no responsibilty but try
> > this
> 
> Fortunately, gconfd is not really like the Windows registry.  It
> actually is an extremely flexible configuration system that supports
> (and by default, at least in Ubuntu, uses) XML files for configuration,
> and supports the ability to use an MVC setup in an application with
> mechanisms for instant-apply preferences and the like.  It eliminates
> some of the requirements for explicitly telling applications to reload
> their configuration files or having to restart things, because you can
> simply change a configuration preference within an applications' gconf
> space and have the setting instantly picked up by the application.
> 
> It really is a nice system, aside from the fact that it does not use the
> traditional UNIX configuration file approach.  However, I think that the
> benefits of the system outweigh that aspect.
> 
> 	--- Mike
> 
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That seems to mean there's hope.  Thanks for the info, Mike.
Jack