I've read a lot of discussion about a new Ubuntu configuration tool: gconf is replaced by dconf.
Why is this change being made? Why is there so much debate about it? Is it too difficult to create a gconf2dconf migration tool?
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typically uses an XML backend, while dconf
uses its own binary blob. From that change alone you can draw up some points:
gconf
that's thousands of stats, thousands of reads and thousands of parsings. dconf
's binary blob would blitz through those without bogging the system down with umpteen thousand IOPs.gconf
.A lot of the arguments are those levelled for and against the Windows registry.
As I understand it, the interface onto this settings back-end would be the same as gconf
: through GSettings
. This would allow distributions and users to chose one and switch out if they needed to.