On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Hamilton Chua <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm using SoaS, I have modified schoolserver.py to register with my XS > and keep the generated serial and uuid in gconf. I have also modified > ds-backup.py to read the SN from gconf.
One quick note. I'm a bit hesitant about storing config in gconf. IIRC the new sugar wants to hide everything there -- which means moderately technical users won't have a means to modify it. So I would prefer to consider moving to gconf values that have a clear UI knob. Without the UI to change the value, moving things to gconf is removing useful functionality (as in "I can look at config files, add comments, diff them, change them, back them up, put them under any SCM") without an upside. If there's a UI for it, there's a benefit. Has to be a good UI, one that doesn't make mistakes, or the user is hosed. I still prefer textfiles for configuration, but I'm on the losing side of that argument it seems. [ Everyone is in love with the "Registry" model which was a disaster in VMS, later in WNT, and continues to add opacity, complexity and dataloss adventures to this day. Please ignore the flamebait :-) ] cheers, m -- [email protected] [email protected] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
