<tt>Sean Middleditch wrote on 03/04/2005 10:40:14 AM: > ...  If you do need to switch backends, is it > worth coding them up as dlopen'd libraries, or is the fact that you can > swap in a different D-BUS daemon that uses the D-Conf service a good > enough mechanism for changing "backends?" > You have lost me here.  Are you saying that you could switch the configuration provider in each application?  What applications currently provide switchable configuration providers?  Should each application create its own configuration provider api or use a common configuration provider api?</tt> <tt>Or are you saying that by swapping a different implementation of the D-conf service, you effectively have provided for a different "backend".</tt> <tt>chas</tt>