But frankly - you dont woryy about gnome settings being screwed in a simplistic enviroment (read tomsrtb etc). You worry about getting it up and running again. fre, 15.10.2004 kl. 08.38 skrev Nicolas Mailhot: > Le vendredi 15 octobre 2004 à 02:21 -0400, Jeff Spaleta a écrit : > > Don't underestimate the power and > > flexibility of being able to quickly open up a configuration file in > > vi from a simplistic rescue environment and be able to get something > > fixed, in your quest to build a file syntax and layout that is is to > > build graphical tools on. There are tradeoffs invovled, and I'm not > > even sure the benefits of even something simple like xml like > > structured files strikes a balance to the ease of parsing the flat > > files in vi when its needed. > > Just look at the fontconfig xml config files - perfectly accessible in > vi if you ask me. This is xml conf done right, not the junk that's > hidden behind gconf-editor. You've got about the same difference than > between a postfix and sendmail setup. > > Ease of conf is not a tech issue only. If you don't care, the smartest > tech in the world won't fix your files for you (and the mess produced by > gconf does not mean conf files can't be done in xml) > > Cheers,
