On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 11:59 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote: > So it's not just about configuring your E-mail application and browser. > > It's about making sure your car and personal data assistant will also > receive your E-mails, IM messages and video conferencing without forcing > the user into configuring hundreds of devices and duplicated settings > (in the Utopical idea that we'll have wireless Internet in all the big > cities of this world sooner or later).
Oh and I forgot to mention DConf is also about - Building an extremely lightning fast asynchrone version of what GConf's daemon does. - Begin extremely not bound to a specific technology. By that I mean that the plan is to make every single technology dependency (including D-BUS) easily replaceable. And implementing the entire solution extremely modular. - A clean ANSI C (but OO-style) API. Probably a lot like libgconf. And a lot supported language bindings for it. - Distributed configuration management for insanely large networks. We plan to build the infrastructure to do this as a Apache2 module. But to avoid network latency by letting every desktop read it's configuration from a local persistent store (the infrastructure only distributes updates to those stores that are deployed on the desktops). - Environment neutral (desktop environment, platform and architecture). A system that can be used on electronic devices. On PDAs and mobile devices. On cellphones. Automated synchronization of configuration data with such devices. So it's not just only about the example that I made. I hope this shows why I had to decide (for me, personally) that "dconf is a research project". -- Philip Van Hoof, Software Developer @ X-Tend home: me at pvanhoof dot be gnome: pvanhoof at gnome dot org work: vanhoof at x-tend.be http://www.pvanhoof.be/ _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
