we need a spec for handling mediums

[Thomas Leonard]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 01:31:01PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> My view is that the shared config spec should be gconf with this delta
> applied:
>  http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/plans.html

"Implement the API primarily as a D-BUS interface. The client library
should be a thin convenience layer over the D-BUS interface."

This is fine for desktop infrastructure (like ROX-Session, gnome-session,
etc), but what about applications? Programs like Gimp, ROX-Filer, etc,
can't assume there is a D-BUS daemon running to handle their
configuration.

(This isn't a problem for RedHat, of course, since you'll start a D-BUS
session on login for all desktops, but upstream authors can't assume
everyone will be using RedHat.)


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