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peter@xxxxxxx.xxx (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> Then leave all the actual "twiddle X, Y and Z" options that you need
>> to fiddle with in place, but put the settings into the Windows
>> Registry ^W^W gconf database, without documentation, and still
>> depend on people twiddling them.
>
> So did they get his policy from Mozilla, or vice versa?
To give credit where credit is due I believe both to have independently
invented the notion of abusing users in that fashion.
Besides, gconf is better than Mozilla -- it has a *hierarchical* list of
critical information, not just a flat list with dots.
>> Yay. Thanks team. Your efforts made it much harder and less
>> comprehensible for end users -- unless they have a systems
>> administrator to twiddle things for them. Good plan.
>
> I guess there aren't enough people running Gnome for anyone to have
> written a GUI for editing the stuff in the gconf database that they
> don't provide a GUI for.
Ah, but they provided exactly what is needed:
They implemented regedit.
Regedit, ed for a new age.
Regedit, where you can store all configuration data, except for the
stuff that gets kept somewhere else, and things that don't fit in there,
and a few other things for good measure.
Regedit, where you can find any setting you want, so long as you can
guess the name of it and wade through aliases putting the same tree in
multiple places.
Regedit, where you can have an error destroy your system -- oh, did you
/need/ to know what drivers to load at boot? Ooopsie!
Regedit, where you can have helpful errors such as "sorry, no, I refuse
to actually load registry settings on a Tuesday, try something else..."
-- for added security.
The Registry, which you can't actually back up, version, or interact
with except through a cruddy set of tools.
...and this is what we need for Unix. Heck, we should have /two/ of
them, because that beats the heck out of the alternatives like, you
know, providing an interface to configuring your software.
Daniel
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