On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 14:11 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > On mer, 2004-07-28 at 10:18 -0500, W. Michael Petullo wrote: > > > Also, as mentioned by someone else before, GConf has some interesting > > capabilities. As I understand, GConf also promised eventual multiple > > backends. > > GConf promised to be a registry that avoided the maintenance problems of > binary backends using XML. What the GConf people forgot is XML *can* be > used to create human-readable and editable files (see fontconfig) but > this requires some developer love to be true. > > It's especially sad to see an app like evolution (which is supposed to > be coded by elite Gnome people) abuse gconf files in so many ways > they're almost as bad as a serialised binary blobs. > > (take a look at .gconf/apps/evolution/mail/%gconf.xml if you don't know > what I'm talking about). It's XML stored as a string key inside the GConf backend, so you get XML escaped inside XML. Reminds me alarmingly of RSS :-( Still, it's not quite as bad as a binary blob - at least you have a snowball's chance in hell of figuring it out. I hope I can get this fixed for Evolution 2.2
