GConf
Sign in to saveGConf was a system used by the GNOME desktop environment for storing configuration settings for the desktop and applications. It is similar to the Windows Registry.
Key facts
- Software.name
- GConf
- Software.logo
- Gconf-editor logo.png
- Software.screenshot
- GConf 3.0.1.png
- Software.caption
- obsolete: GConf editor
- Software.developer
- Havoc Pennington
- Software.discontinued
- yes
- Software.latest release version
- 3.2.6
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.genre
- Configuration
- Software.license
- GNU Lesser General Public License
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- free software
- Developer
- Havoc Pennington
- Official website
- projects.gnome.org/gconf
- Image
- GConf 3.0.1.png
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- copyright license
- GNU Lesser General Public License
- source code repository URL
- gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gconf
- software version identifier
- 3.2.6
- programmed in
- C
- operating system
- Unix-like operating system
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Architecture
- Changes notification
- Schemas
- Bindings
- References
- External links
GConf was a system used by the GNOME desktop environment for storing configuration settings for the desktop and applications. It is similar to the Windows Registry.
It was deprecated as part of the GNOME 3 transition. Migration to its replacement, GSettings and dconf, is ongoing.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “GConf” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.