Tim Triche wrote: > > I think rc files suck. The Windows registry was a step in the right direction > but of course marketing concerns caused its implementation to be suboptimal. > > Nonetheless, centralized, standardized configurations are the wave of the future > (and some cynics might add, "and always will be", cf. parallel computing ;-). There is a binary 'registry' being developed for gnome ('gconf' I think it's called). But I want to keep gnome dependence with the gnome front if possible (e.g., I don't want the web front to need gnome left and right). Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | BIOINFORMATICS.ORG | | The Open Lab | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+