[plug] Registry for Linux

[Michael Hunt]

For those that were interested in the Registry idea for window managers here
is a snip from the GNOME summary mailing.

<sniped non relevant bits>

GConf

I'm playing around with a new configuration system (a replacement for
libgnome/gnome-config.h). This is like the Windows "registry," only without
the bad parts. :-)

If you're curious, look at gconf/doc/thoughts.txt in CVS; you might also be
interested in

	http://www.debian.org/~wakkerma/config6/

Not too much code yet. It will be Gnome-independent, thus the name "GConf"
instead of "GnomeConf". Oh, the initial thread about this starts here:


http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-devel-list/1999-July/0121.
shtml

thoughts.txt in CVS is a revision of my mailing list post.

Michael Hunt