> Trimming away some of the irrelevant bits of this conversation...
Playing the nice-poster game... 8-)
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> Evolution uses a component, i.e. another process that, in theory, can
> handle spelling for multiple applications. Doesn't seem to work that
> way in practice. Most other apps are using libraries directly rather
> than the component.
ok, thanks for that bit of info -- learn something new every day.
> > I like to tweak and optimize things, that are more under the hood and
> > not visible to the user. Having a GUI for that is good -- but having no
> > choice besides the GUI is not the traditional UNIX/Linux way.
>
> There is a command-line interface: gconftool (which now comes in
> gconftool-1 and gconftool-2 flavors). Useful for scripting, e.g. in
> package postinstalls. Arguably superior in that regard to scriptable
> text editing, e.g. sed.
Sure there is, I know about those. And you are right, that way is better
for scripting. Changing those settings as user is easy with a GUI (GConf
or the app) and not so crypted.
However, I hope there is a way to simply extract a whole tree (for a
special app) and feeding that tree in GConf on another machine. I don't
know about that (if or if not) but that gets high priority on my list to
learn about...
> > FWIW: I think I can deal with a centralized configuration. At least it
> > is done by hackers, that sure wanna even more control than I want. And i
> > doubt, we will end up with such a mess like the MS registry...
>
> Notable advantages of GConf over the MS registry:
>
> - It's entirely user-level; no machine-level settings stored in GConf.
> - That being the case, problems won't prevent the machine from booting
> and shouldn't even prevent you from loggin in, assuming you have a "safe
> mode" alternative to GNOME, e.g. the console, remote login, or vanilla
> X.
Hopefully another one:
- using real database as background (deleting key shrinks db)
This thread goes totally OT. But at least I am interested in discussing
Gnome stuff besides Evo. And right now the volume isn't as high in here
as in recent months -- seems, Evo hackers have ironed out the most
bugs... ;-)
...guenther
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