GNOME Gconf Registry Cleaner - Gconf Cleaner

GConf is a system of storing preferences of most of the installed applications, as well as the environment and desktop for GNOME for Linux, It is intended for user preferences; not configuration of something like Apache, or arbitrary data storage.

GConf involves a few new concepts, but no rocket science. Essentially GConf provides a preferences database, which is like a simple filesystem. The filesystem contains keys organized into a hierarchy. Each key is either a directory containing more keys, or has a value. For example, the key /apps/metacity/general/titlebar_font contains an integer value giving the size of the titlebar font for the Metacity window manager.

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