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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
You can't recreate the shortcut? No idea why it disappeared from the laptop, but you ought to be able to put it back.
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Oh, the shortcuts are there, both on the desktop and the laptop, and I can remove and recreate them. The desktop however, is missing the RightClick -> More -> Manage option, which the laptop still has. (The "More" menu in itself is useless also, because the right-click menu is only three options long, including itself.)
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Many programs still do have their own ini files or the equivalent.
Backup and restore were easy enough. The trick was remembering where they all were.
Lots of folks were unhappy about the Windows Registry, where everything got stored in a hierarchal database that requires a special tool to view and manipulate. The nice thing about ini files is that they were plain text and could be diddled by your editor of choice.
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Yeah, you know... Linux has (had?) /etc (editable text config), of which the community was very proud. Then the Gnome developers, in collaboration with Red Hat went and created
dconf, which is basically a Registry for Gnome and X.org.
The Linux community also prides itself on a totally modular bootup sequence, which can be changed, enhanced, and customized just by using a text editor... and then, Red Hat again (and the poisonous archdevil in the open source community, Lennart Poettering) went and created systemd.
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Lots of things these days make use of SQLite, a public domain SQL compliant DBMS implemented as a single library. For example, Firefox stores bookmarks and history in a places.sqlite DBMS, and uses SQLite elsewhere, too.
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Yes. It's easier than implementing one's own text-based ini-file reader/writer, or using a library te handle ini-files. There are some open source programs that can read/write SQLite databases, so if you keep to one table with settings and values, it's doable.