More ideas about re-designing config files

[Martin Pool]

> b) use something like dconf and/or GSettings for all this?
>
> GSettings has a file back end in addition to the dconf one...

Interesting idea.  Most of what we want to change here is how the
application code assembles the stack of configuration objects.  I
suppose there's no reason that couldn't be assembling gsettings stacks
instead; but also switching to that would not immediately solve these
problems.

-- 
Martin