On Monday 23 May 2005 10:22, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Post-sarge, we will have to re-think the path file to bear with the > system defaults moving to /var/lib. This will be the time to deal with > such packages. I think the best way is to split it into > a /etc/gconf/path.d directory, where packages can add their files.
Ok, apperently I didn't make this clear:
desktop-profiles is a general mechanism for packages to add their own
configuration sources (i.e. it provides everything a path.d dir would
provide + some extra's*)
As a bonus it's cross-desktop. This might not seem important, but even for a
pure** gnome user this reduces the number of mechanisms for controlling
adding/overriding/deactivating configuration sets from 2 to 1 (at the very
least you also need to know about the freedesktop way of adding/overriding
things)
* mostly it allowing conditional activation of configuration sources (i.e
activate this configuration set if the user is a student, activate that
configuration set if the user is a teacher, ...)
** not using any apps from other desktops
> If we go on this way, the gconf configuration files will become a
> complete mess.
desktop-profiles doesn't change _anything_ regarding the default
configuration, out of the box the resulting configuration will be _exactly_
the same.
What desktop-profiles does do is provide a standard way for:
a) admins/CDD's/packages to add their own configuration sets
(additions/overrides/alternatives to the default configuration)
b) the admin to control which of the installed configuration sets are
actived under which conditions
How this makes the gconf configuration a complete mess I fail to see?
> Please stop the madness.
I'm not seeing what is madness about desktop-profiles. Possibly this is
because I didn't make myself clear enough (if so sorry about that),
If that's not the reason behind the madness comment could you please
elaborate on why you think it is madness?
(I'm apperently not alone in not seeing the maddness as the people I
discussed this with at the cdd-devcamp in Valencia all reacted positifely
regarding desktop-profiles)
> There's already a package which wants to modify the path based on other
> things.
just out of curiousity: which one? and why?
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