About:
GConf is a "registry" system, a library applications can use to store key-value pairs persistently. It's written for GNOME, but it does not require GNOME or even X to work. Use outside GNOME is encouraged and will be supported.

Author:
Havoc Pennington <hp __at__ redhat __dot__ com> [contact developer]

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8.12/10.00 (3 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/
Tar/GZ:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/GConf/2.20/GConf-2.20.1.tar.gz
Tar/BZ2:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/GConf/2.20/GConf-2.20.1.tar.bz2
Changelog:
http://ftp.gnome.org/[..]OME/sources/GConf/2.20/GConf-2.20.1.news
Debian package:
http://packages.debian.org/gconf
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gconf/trunk/
Bug tracker:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/
Mailing list archive:
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gconf-list

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		X11 Applications
[Intended Audience]		Developers
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Software Development :: Libraries

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.20.1	31-Dec-2007	GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
2.20.1	N/A	31-Dec-2007 18:30
1.2.1	N/A	20-Sep-2002 08:10
1.2.0	N/A	11-Jul-2002 16:37
1.0.9	Minor bugfixes	27-Mar-2002 21:16
0.9	N/A	25-Sep-2000 05:49
0.6	N/A	27-Jul-2000 19:11
0.1	N/A	20-Sep-1999 16:13

 Articles referencing this project

• Too Much Free Software
  by Marius Andreiana , in Editorials
  Sat, Mar 29th 2003 00:00
  
• A Solution to the Problem of Configuration in Linux
  by Jason Long , in Editorials
  Sat, Sep 28th 2002 00:00
  
• How to Fix the Unix Configuration Nightmare
  by Matthew Arnison , in Editorials
  Sat, Feb 16th 2002 00:00
  

 Comments

[»] Flat files
by Havoc Pennington - Aug 10th 2000 01:34:01

GConf is simply an abstract API, it can use flat files as a backend.

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[»] Is this a good thing?
by Brian Akins - Jul 27th 2000 15:58:21

Shouldn't we encourage configuration to be stored in flat files whenever necessary?

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[»] Re: Is this a good thing?
by Captain Bunzo - Jul 24th 2001 02:04:06


> Shouldn't we encourage configuration to
> be stored in flat files whenever
> necessary? no. It is absolutely necessary in this day of computing to have various options for the storage of configuration data...



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