On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 20:54:39 -0700, Kenneth Porter shiva@sewingwitch.com wrote:
--On Sunday, July 25, 2004 9:09 AM +0800 Edward edward@tripled.iinet.net.au wrote:
You cannot be serious. The day Linux makes me look for some obscure setting under {079ACDF2-9218-45CC-B735-AF459E25BC67}\00 is the day I give up on computers.
Not too many settings are stored under GUIDs. Most of the useful stuff would be under something like SOFTWARE/Vendor/Product, just like it would be under /etc.
Big difference is that registry is a binary blob which mixes all kinds of information and requires special tools to edit them
On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 05:03 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 20:54:39 -0700, Kenneth Porter shiva@sewingwitch.com wrote:
--On Sunday, July 25, 2004 9:09 AM +0800 Edward edward@tripled.iinet.net.au wrote:
You cannot be serious. The day Linux makes me look for some obscure setting under {079ACDF2-9218-45CC-B735-AF459E25BC67}\00 is the day I give up on computers.
Not too many settings are stored under GUIDs. Most of the useful stuff would be under something like SOFTWARE/Vendor/Product, just like it would be under /etc.
Big difference is that registry is a binary blob which mixes all kinds of information and requires special tools to edit them
Another big difference is obfuscation. Hiding what the key is/does/enables from all but those (none) who think in computerese.
Linux configuration files leave it in the hands of the user.
-- Regards, Rahul Sundaram
On 03/10/2005 03:59:38 PM, Jeff Vian wrote:
Linux configuration files leave it in the hands of the user.
and they have to be hand edited, or a gui tool has to be written for each one, because they all decide they want to use a different syntax.
Before you talk about how bad registries are, think about what gconf is.
Yup, you guessed it - it's a centralized application registry - with an API that allows gui tools to be easily written, including generic tools like gconf-editor.
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Yup, you guessed it - it's a centralized application registry - with an API that allows gui tools to be easily written, including generic tools like gconf-editor.
Gconf uses xml files to store its content and it doesnt mix system and use information. A registry is not a bad idea in itself but the windows implementation is