You said that gconf is only for configuration purpose. Are you a gconf
developer ?  Is there any source that confirm that ?

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Vojtěch Smejkal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Interesting idea! Keep it up.
>
> GNOME global database would be great thing. GConf is fine, but it is
> only for configuration data. I wish we had database like GConf, but much
> more powerful. It should be capable to store data (e.g. Evolution
> emails, Pidgin history,..) and search them. There also should be a
> option to backup the whole database or only configuration data. Running
> daemon could provide simple API and interconnection between application
> and database.
>
> Maybe it will be necessary to specify structure of saved emails and some
> other specific types of data to keep interoperability among more
> applications (Evolution, Mozilla Thunderbird,..)
>
> The second thing, configuration and data files of most applications
> stored in hidden directories in home directory should be moved to
> $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $XDG_DATA_HOME directories.
>
>
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