Status of gconf -> dconf

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Feb 19 01:53:50 UTC 2009


Shawn Starr wrote:
> This may be more of a GNOME question but are there folks @ Red Hat working
> on dconf? It would do Fedora (and future RHELs) well if we helped replace
> gconf. Installing GNOME related RPMs or yum updates is horrible due to the
> time the XML schemas take to register.

As long as:
> dconf and GSettings are not yet free software. They are currently "all
> rights reserved".
this is not going to happen.

I hate projects doing that. Why don't they make this Free Software right
from the start (as opposed to "in the future")?

        Kevin Kofler




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