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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE performance
From:       Carsten Pfeiffer <carpdjih () cetus ! zrz ! TU-Berlin ! DE>
Date:       1998-02-14 17:13:19
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Hiya,

> > 1: Some (power?)users can modify the config files by hand, and thereby not
> > lose their settings.

Let's build a frontend that can export the whole db or parts oft it 
(e.g. only the data of a specific program) to a textfile. Then you 
can perform your changes with awk, sed, vi or any other tool and 
reload it back into the db, afterwards.

> > 2: If you can't figure out the syntax of the file or it's simply been
> > deleted, you will only loose the settings in this one file, and the rest
> > of the system is untouched.

Of course there has to be some integrated backup mechanism.
 
> > This has been discussed so many times over the past year, that it should
> > make it's way into the faq. I - and many other KDE users/developers -
> > agree on one thing: We are *NOT* going to make a registry. If this changes
> > in the future, I'm switching to gnome at once.

What happens if _they_ decide to use a registry? ;o)

Cheers,
Carsten Pfeiffer
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