freebsd-ports/devel/gconf2/pkg-descr
Joe Marcus Clarke 9c0caae1c2 Update to GNOME 2.4.0. For all the goodies on what's changed, known issues,
future plans, etc., please see http://www.gnome.org/start/2.4/.

This commit represents work done by adamw, bland, and myself as well as
many other contributers:

Koop Mast <einekoai@chello.nl>
Akifyev Sergey <asa@gascom.ru>
Franz Klammer <klammer@webonaut.com>
Øyvind Kolbu <oyvind@kebab.gaffel.nu>
Thomas E. Zander <riggs@rrr.de>
Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net>

Without these contirbuters, and our faithful users, GNOME 2.4.0 would not
be possible.

Please check the FreeBSD GNOME site for any FreeBSD gotchas, as well as
general FAQs and documentation (GNOME 2.4 updates to be posted soon).  The
best way to upgrade so that you get all shared library dependencies is:

portupgrade -rf -m BATCH=yes atk
portupgrade -R -m BATCH=yes gnome2

Approved by:	portmgr (kris, will, myself implicitly)
Requested by:	re as well as many other users
2003-09-18 06:49:37 +00:00

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GConf attempts to leapfrog the registry concept. It's a library which provides
a simple configuration data storage interface to applications, and also an
architecture that tries to make things easy for system administrators.
Here are some of the features of GConf:
* Replaceable backend architecture.
* Configuration key documentation. Applications can install documentation
along with their configuration data, explaining the possible settings and
the effect of each configuration key.
* Data change notification service. If configuration data is changed, all
interested applications are notified. The notification service works
across the network, affecting all login sessions for a single user.
* The client API is very abstract.
* GConf does proper locking so that the configuration data doesn't get
corrupted when multiple applications try to use it.
WWW: http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/