[gnome-user-docs] completed draft of gsettings-browse.page
- From: Jim Campbell <jcampbell src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gnome-user-docs] completed draft of gsettings-browse.page
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:20:16 +0000 (UTC)
commit 97c36fcf044493bec7d66dd015501ff7505486f9
Author: Jim Campbell <jwcampbell gmail com>
Date: Sun Aug 12 21:19:47 2012 -0500
completed draft of gsettings-browse.page
system-admin-guide/C/gsettings-browse.page | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
1 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/system-admin-guide/C/gsettings-browse.page b/system-admin-guide/C/gsettings-browse.page
index 603c665..71694da 100644
--- a/system-admin-guide/C/gsettings-browse.page
+++ b/system-admin-guide/C/gsettings-browse.page
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
type="topic" style="task"
id="gsettings-browse">
<info>
- <revision version="0.1" date="2012-07-02" status="stub"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="3.6" version="0.8" date="2012-08-11" status="draft"/>
<link type="guide" xref="index" group="tools" />
<credit type="author copyright">
@@ -10,23 +10,43 @@
<email>matthias clasen gmail com</email>
<years>2012</years>
</credit>
+ <credit type="author copyright">
+ <name>Jim Campbell</name>
+ <email>jwcampbell gmail com</email>
+ <years>2012</years>
+ </credit>
- <desc>Which tool can I use to explore gsettings?</desc>
+ <desc>What tool can I use to explore gsettings values?</desc>
</info>
- <title>Exploring gsettings</title>
+ <title>Browse gsettings values for your applications</title>
<comment>
<cite date="2012-07-02" href="mailto:mdhillca gmail com">Michael Hill</cite>
<p>Adapted from l-g-o SysAdminGuide page. Add a see-also?</p>
</comment>
- <p><app>dconf-editor</app> is a graphical utility that lets you browse
- gsettings. The <app>gsettings</app> commandline utility does the same in a
- non-graphical way; it has very useful bash completion. Note that these tools
- always operate on the current user's gsettings database, so you don't want to
- run them as root. In addition, they require a D-Bus session bus in order to
- make any changes (since that requires activating the dconf daemon via
- D-Bus).</p>
-
+ <p>There are two tools you can use to browse gsettings values, the <app>
+ dconf-editor</app> graphical utility and the <app>gsettings</app> commandline
+ utility.</p>
+
+ <p>Both <app>dconf-editor</app> and <app>gsettings</app> let you browse and
+ change options for system and application preferences. You can even use
+ them to change preferences that do not exist in the graphical user interface.
+ </p>
+
+ <p><app>dconf-editor</app> may be better to use if you are not familiar with
+ the options available an application. However, as a commandline application,
+ <app>gsettings</app> is more powerful than <app>dconf-editor</app>. <app>
+ gsettings</app> permits bash completion, and you can write scripts that
+ include <app>gsettings</app> commands.</p>
+
+ <note style="warning"><p>Note that these tools always operate using the
+ current user's gsettings database, so you should not run these applications
+ as root.</p></note>
+
+ <note><p>Both <app>dconf-editor</app> and <app>gsettings</app> require a
+ D-Bus session bus in order to make any changes. This is because the dconf
+ daemon must be activated using D-Bus.</p></note>
+
</page>
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