If I ever write a desktop suite, it will store settings as a well-defined directory tree with human-meaningful file names and contents instead of a MySQL database or a large flat opaque file.
That's just me, though. Jude On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 7:37 PM, T.J. Duchene <t.j.duch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI [mailto:ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org] > > Sent: Saturday, April 4, 2015 5:34 PM > > To: dng@lists.dyne.org > > Subject: Re: [Dng] Too many man pages, too much complicated : systemd > > > > On Sun, 05 Apr 2015 00:11:55 +0200 > > toto titi <voidtothete...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Nearly as complex as a Microsoft operating system, look at that : > > > http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/ > > > > Please, Sir, could we have a registry ? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Ron. > > -- > [T.J. ] You already do have a registry. > > It's called "gconf" and has been part of Gnome for the last decade. KDE > uses a MySQL database for many settings as well, so Gnome is not the only > culprit. > > The basic idea of a database/registry is not a bad one. It is actually > very > efficient for miscellaneous settings, or programming new features rapidly, > but the flip-side is that flat files are easier to fix if something goes > south. The idea of a registry gets a bad rap because of the poor way that > Microsoft implemented theirs with UUID codes that are hard to decipher, and > the fact that Microsoft never provided a tool to clean up the database to > prevent software rot. Fortunately, the Linux equivalents are user account > based rather than system wide and can easily be cloned, modified, or if > necessary dumped. > > T.J. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >
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