Configuration API

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="George">

> wheras what really would be useful to be shared is the backend.  That is,
> GConf is already an API for GNOME and I bet KDE folks are just as happy
> with their own API.  As long as we can plug shared backends into the
> native APIs then there is no need for an FD only API.

The most troublesome bit is the configuration semantics wrt keys/values and
schemas and so on - you're going to define all of that with the backend API?
I'd be very surprised if the GNOME and KDE semantics were not incompatible
to begin with.

- Jeff

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