diary of a window system hackerhttp://www.fooishbar.org/blog/2005/Apr/11Daniel Stonehttp://www.fooishbar.org/blog/2005/Apr/11daniel@fooishbar.orgCopyright 2004-2009 Daniel Stone, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License
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2005-04-11T10:21:00Zthe stupidity of dconf and/or assuming coherent entitieshttp://www.fooishbar.org/blog/2005/04/11/dconf-2005-04-11-11-212005-04-11T10:21:00Z2005-04-11T10:21:00ZAaron writes about <a
href="http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2005/04/stupidity-of-dconf.html">the
stupidity of DConf</a>. To be honest, I haven't been following the DConf
discussions very closely at all, so I can't really comment in any useful way
on the proposed standard, the people pushing it, whatever. All I can say is
that fd.o is currently two machines with a couple of people have root on, that
happens to run some reasonably popular lists. Anyone can subscribe and post,
so what one person says, or a few people say, on xdg, might not be reflective
of the opinion of the people who will be implementing and integrating whichever
technology finally comes about. I don't doubt that a useful technology will
come out of this -- if DConf is a failure, so be it. I'm sure that if it is,
then something useful will be borne of its ashes.
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That being said, I think if any good standard comes about, it will be a
<strong>very good thing</strong>. I think the goal is worthwhile enough to
persist with any bumps that may come along the way. But then again, I'm just
hot-airing on a couple of planets, not writing any code, so take my views with
the appropriate grain of salt. :)