spit and polish

[Havoc Pennington]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 01:52:29AM -0500, Navindra Umanee wrote: 
>     Speaking of which, this is not the first time that I've noticed
>     that KControl's idea of default is out of sync with the rest of
>     the desktop's idea about the defaults.  Many times this has been
>     fixed in CVS for various cases, but invariably things get out of
>     sync again.
> 
>     Can this be fixed at an architectural level?  For example, by
>     keeping all defaults are kept in a central location and apps that
>     need to know the defaults access this location (whether at
>     compilation time or runtime is debatable but compile time is good
>     enough).

This is one of the main points of gconf, to fix this issue
architecturally. There was a previous thread where I mentioned
mutating gconf into a cross-desktop solution as one possible option.

Havoc