Re: Developer Platform Improvements?

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 14:28, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 12:01, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > <quote who="Jeff Waugh">
> > 
> > ===
> >   * The GConf daemon now maintains its locks in /tmp by default which
> >     means GConf will not attempt to contact a daemon on a remote
> >     machine if the user is using a shared NFS home directory. To use
> >     the old behaviour of maintaining the lock in ~/.gconfd, you can
> >     set the GCONF_GLOBAL_LOCKS environment variable.
> > 
> >   * gconf_client_notify() to fake notifications. Useful way of reading
> >     the initial values of GConf keys on programs startup.
> > 
> >   * gconf_client_recursive_unset() to recursively unset all keys in a
> >     directory and its sub-directories.
> > 
> >   * gconf_entry_copy(), gconf_entry_ref() and gconf_entry_unref()
> >     added for memory management of GConfEntry. gconf_entry_free() is
> >     deprecated. 
> > 
> >   * several additions to gconftool:
> > 
> >       + --dump and --load to allow the dumping and loading of parts of
> >         the GConf tree to and from xml. Useful, for making copies of
> >         your preferences and such.
> >       + --get-type to find out the type of a key.
> >       + --get-list-size and --get-list-element for more fine-grained
> >         access to lists.
> >       + --makefile-uninstall-rule to allow schemas to be
> >         un-installed. 
> 
> I want support for a "filename" key type that does automatic handling of
> files under $home.

Oh, sorry, this wasn't a whishlist for 2.5...

/me hides

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