Preferences dialog suggestions

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
20 Oct 2002 18:21:57 -0400


Chris Lyttle <chris@wilddev.net> writes:

> Well now that you bring this up, the route that GNOME decided on for
> GNOME2 was basically to place advanced preferences in gconf, this way
> users would see a fairly simple interface and advanced users (such as
> yourself) would still have all the functionality they wanted. All the
> above are good suggestions that actually go a little further than I was
> trying to.

ok, very off topic now...

I just dont know how well GConf works with a centrally-distributed
application.  Can an application tell gconf where to look for the
application-specific configuration schema?

> Chris

-derek

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