Chris's Wiki :: blog/linux/GnomeSettingsIrritation Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/GnomeSettingsIrritation?atomcommentsDWiki2009-04-24T20:07:37ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/linux/GnomeSettingsIrritation.By Chris Siebenmann on /blog/linux/GnomeSettingsIrritationtag:CSpace:blog/linux/GnomeSettingsIrritation:5f6193ec12ff1fb77fe8556205b506388ccd7df6Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>I don't mind the system-wide settings; I sort of consider whether an
application puts their 'default' settings in their binary or in some
configuration file somewhere to be an implementation detail. (This gets
less clear when people make bizarre distribution specific changes to
said configuration files.)</p>
</div>2009-04-24T20:07:37ZFrom 65.172.155.230 on /blog/linux/GnomeSettingsIrritationtag:CSpace:blog/linux/GnomeSettingsIrritation:cbdae6337127b3a5a89b8e3aaf391bc57b3249e6From 65.172.155.230<div class="wikitext"><p>My understanding is that you run "gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /gconf/key/path/to/user/settings" ... at which point the defaults come from the installed "schema".
How a normal person finds out the gconf key path, I'm not sure. It would have certainly been nice if they'd had all applications come with a --reset-to-default option which calls some gconf API.</p>
<p>Saying that applications also have some of their settings be system wide, like the blinking cursor snafu in gnome-terminal.</p>
</div>2009-04-23T14:33:00ZFrom 195.26.247.140 on /blog/linux/GnomeSettingsIrritationtag:CSpace:blog/linux/GnomeSettingsIrritation:ef2d7a57ed454546d19c55d4b38b1564439910a0From 195.26.247.140<div class="wikitext"><p>Do we not learn from the terrible mistakes of the windows registry? :(</p>
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