Alan Cox wrote:
Gconf doesn't need gnome. The reverse is true however. The XML
format also lets
Thats true. But the problem is GConf is too many dependencies, and a
design oriented to the desktop only. So the idea is to keep GConf, but
attach to it a backend capable of doing global configurations, as
Elektra.
you work with prefences using styles and XML XSLT and the like which
is very
powerful when working with a large number of systems. Really nobody has
scratched the surface of what it can do.
XML is good for external representation of data, but not for storage.
XML storage makes GConf damn slow.
Avi