The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 12:30:43PM -0500, sean wrote:
> gconf isn't limited because of its file format.   It's limited because
> it's tied so closely to the Gnome WM.   Really, once you have a standard

Gconf doesn't need gnome. The reverse is true however. The XML format also lets
you work with prefences using styles and XML XSLT and the like which is very
powerful when working with a large number of systems. Really nobody has
scratched the surface of what it can do.

You don't have to care about the XML either, one of the crazier gconf demos
from a long time ago was an email interface to gconf settings