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.duchene@???> wrote:

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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI [mailto:renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org]
> > Sent: Saturday, April 4, 2015 5:34 PM
> > To: dng@???
> > Subject: Re: [Dng] Too many man pages, too much complicated : systemd
> >
> > On Sun, 05 Apr 2015 00:11:55 +0200
> > toto titi <voidtothetenth@???> 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.
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