Le Lun 27 mars 2006 22:39, sean a écrit : Yay, return of the linuxconf It will break for the same reason that linuxconf failed - even a GUI needs some config file consistency to work. It will fail like the current printer setup fails. If you want it to work conf syntax and GUI/CLI tools must be carefuly thought of and aligned, or you'll only produce brittle GUI tools which eat conf files at the first opportunity. *If* a core set of apps could be moved to a modern consistent format then one could try to evangelize it later. This is something the gconf people botched big time by focusing on the GUI and generating files no one could sanely modify in a text editor (and no xml is not the reason. Serializing stuff without thinking is the reason. Abusing human-unfriendly UUIDs is the reason) My suggesting if you want this to happen is : 1. create a new gconf backend with files people can actually change in vi of emacs 2. once you've proved you've a solid candidate both GUI and CLi cand work with, try to sell it to everyone else But if you're not able to switch gnome (which has a single point of entry - gconf) you've got zip chances to get rid of the others legacy formats -- Nicolas Mailhot