Re: Libsoup and GNOME3

[Dan Winship <danw gnome org>]

On 06/23/2010 05:39 AM, Łukasz Jernaś wrote:
> Hi Dan and others,
> 
> Just wanted to ask a quick question about the future of libsoup. As it
> is now it still requires GTK2 via libproxy. Were there any talks about
> moving to the GNOME3 stack? This would also require
> system_http_proxy.schemas to be available in gsettings somewhere..

Right. Thanks for poking me about this. So I guess there are several parts:

    1. We need to figure out where the settings are going. The control
       center maintainers have started this discussion
       (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomecc-list/2010-May/msg00017.html
       and the wiki page linked from there) but the final home for the
       settings has not actually been figured out yet.

    2. Once they're migrated, we need to write code for libproxy to
       use them. I've filed a bug about that:
       http://code.google.com/p/libproxy/issues/detail?id=131

    3. Then we need a libproxy release with the new code, which may
       or may not be easy depending on what's going on with libproxy
       at the time. OTOH, gnome-control-center 3.0 will probably
       still set the GConf keys for proxies as well, for backward-
       compatibility, so the old libproxy module would still work
       under GNOME 3 probably, at least for 3.0.

    4. libsoup uses gconf directly as well and that needs to be ported
       over.

Although #2 can't be finalized until after #1 happens, someone could
start working on the code using dummy key names at least. Leave a note
in the bug if you're planning to do that.

-- Dan