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[Geert Janssens]

On Wednesday 05 February 2014 15:14:37 David Ryder wrote:
> On 05/02/14 15:08, Geert Janssens wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 February 2014 14:55:36 David Ryder wrote:
> >> Thanks !
> >> May I ask why it was moved? Configuration Editor is not being
> >> phased
> >> out AFAIK.
> >> David
> > 
> > Configuration Editor is a graphical front end to GConf. GConf is
> > deprecated by Gnome in favour of GSettings. I don't know what Ubuntu
> > chose as preferences backend for Unity so I can't comment there.
> > 
> > Add to this that GConf was acting up badly on both Windows and OS X
> > and suddenly the option to switch to GSettings makes a lot of
> > sense.
> > 
> > Geert
> 
> Understood - thanks for the explanation. Didn't know about the
> problems with Windows an OS X - just curious.
> David
You're welcome :)

Geert