On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 12:33, David Krider wrote: > Not to take anything from you, Christopher, because that's a slick > answer. > > This whole business of the Gnome project employing a "registry" is > really bothersome to me. Who among us -- indeed, who among Gnome > developers -- likes to go in and hack on a Windows registry? Microsoft > even has a pretty decent editor for it. It's just that the concept leads > one to having a whole bunch of interconnected-yet-disparate settings > that become hard to find. Maybe I'm tilting at windmills. I hope someone > will say that the Gnome registry is (and will *always* be) different. I > say that one of the strengths of KDE is the ability to customize it and > lock it down through flat text files. With the press that's been > generated about how Sun is going to be using Gnome as their desktop > environment, I would think that that sort of customizability and > security are available even so, but I somehow doubt it. Can anyone speak > to these concerns? As a user, I would prefer a registry stored in my local home directory, one that I could "port" around for my specific user to the hundreds of .programname folders in my home directory >:| -- Shawn <drevil@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.warpcore.org/
