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Unless you are logged in as root, most of the stuff in gconf should not be in /etc. Actually, even then they'd be better in /root/.<whatever>. I do dislike gr
by Tuna-Fish 17y ago
Unless you are logged in as root, most of the stuff in gconf should not be in /etc.
Actually, even then they'd be better in /root/.<whatever>.
I do dislike grouping unrelated application settings into ~/.gconf -- before, if you screwed up a setting you could always just rm -rf .<whatever>, without losing anything unrelated.
- skulgnome 17y agoNo. The root user's configuration and the systemwide configuration are distinct. /root has the former, and /etc has the latter.
- wfaulk 17y agoI do dislike grouping unrelated application settings into ~/.gconf -- before, if you screwed up a setting you could always just rm -rf .<whatever>, without losing anything unrelated. Oh, God yes. It's awful. There are severe usability problems with lumping everything together. (Of course, this is outside the issue of the original post.) In addition, if GConf is the One True Way to store Gnome settings, why do I have ~/.gconf, ~/.gconfd, ~/.gnome, ~/.gnome-rdp.db, ~/.gnome2, ~/.gnome2-private, ~/.gpilotd, ~/.gpilotd.pid, and ~/.gtk-bookmarks?