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Re: [opensuse] Most odd... where are evolution's contact (address) information kept??
  • From: James Ogley <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 19:18:30 +0000
  • Message-id: <1131909510.7547.3.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Maybe, it is worth adding that GConf is not limited to Gnome
> applications--it was invented to be used by all applications. GConf does
> not require Gnome libraries and it is based on XML as the file format.

Good point, its only dependencies in that area are gtk2 [and its dep's]
and orbit2 (for the GConf daemon), but given the files are simple XML,
they can easily be accessed by anything.

> In the long run, we must find a way to unify both systems.

Couldn't agree more - would rock if (for example) KDE apps respected the
GConf key for default browser, etc etc etc...
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