Re: /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/ --- Why ­­/etc ?

2005-09-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 25 septembre 2005 à 20:14 -0400, Anthony DeRobertis a écrit : Perhaps I'm missing something (please fill me in if I am), but there does not seem to be anything to edit in: ?xml version=1.0? gconf entry name=statistics mtime=1127335805

Re: /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/ --- Why ­­/etc ?

2005-09-25 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Josselin Mouette wrote: They actually *are* configuration files. You can edit them with gconftool or gconf-editor. Perhaps I'm missing something (please fill me in if I am), but there does not seem to be anything to edit in: ?xml version=1.0? gconf entry name=statistics

/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/ --- Why ­­/etc ?

2005-09-24 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
I just got a new machine, and due to the fact its a different architecture I couldn't just copy the old install over. So, instead, I re-installed. After finishing installing, copying $HOME, etc. I did decided to do a diff between the old /etc and the new /etc to see what I might need to configure

Re: /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/ --- Why ­­ /etc ?

2005-09-24 Thread Jens Peter Secher
Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ Complain about useless/unnecessary differences in Gnome /etc file. ] The schema field does not look like configuration, either. In short, these files don't seem to be configuration files at all. Some of these files apparently contain

Re: /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/ --- Why ­­/etc ?

2005-09-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 24 septembre 2005 à 05:46 -0400, Anthony DeRobertis a écrit : I have no clue what those dates mean. I suspect they are some auto-generated timestime (mtime would seem to imply that). Maybe of when the package was compiled. The schema field does not look like configuration, either. In

Re: /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/ --- Why ­­/etc ?

2005-09-24 Thread Rich Walker
Jens Peter Secher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ Complain about useless/unnecessary differences in Gnome /etc file. ] Please, could someone tell me why these should not be in /usr/share/gconf? Otherwise, I propose a mass bug filing. I

Re: /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/ --- Why ­­/etc ?

2005-09-24 Thread Lars Wirzenius
la, 2005-09-24 kello 14:56 +0200, Josselin Mouette kirjoitti: As many people already complained about the size of /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults, the default settings are in the process to be moved to /var/lib/gconf/defaults. I don't have any particular understanding of gconf uses the defaults

Re: /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/ --- Why ­­/etc ?

2005-09-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 24 septembre 2005 à 17:36 +0300, Lars Wirzenius a écrit : I don't have any particular understanding of gconf uses the defaults file, so please forgive me if this is a silly question: is /var the correct location for the defaults file? It should never change (unless the package is