Re: Module proposal: dconf

[Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 13:12 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
>> Le mardi 13 octobre 2009, à 00:16 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo a écrit :
>> > El lun, 12-10-2009 a las 11:33 -0400, Ryan Lortie escribió:
>> > > Hello
>> > >
>> > > On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 17:30 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
>> > > > Le lundi 12 octobre 2009, à 11:27 -0400, Ryan Lortie a écrit :
>> > > > > I'd like to propose the inclusion of dconf for GNOME 2.30 in the
>> > > > > desktop release set.
>> > > >
>> > > > No.
>> > >
>> > > Pretty please?
>> > >
>> >
>> > No.
>> >
>> > Diego (who is not even an r-t member but wanted to be part of the fun)
>>
>> Heh :-)
>>
>> Ryan is a bit sad to not get feedback on his proposal, so a bit more
>> seriously: I think what we probably need is a migration plan. Should we
>> move all the code from gconf to dconf in one cycle (if possible)? Should
>> apps implement migration for the data in gconf? etc.
>>
> I think it makes sense to do the migration for all the apps at once.
> Also, the migration from gconf can be done directly from dconf, the
> first time it starts, or even it could be clever enough to synchronize
> changes from gconf every time it starts, to cover apps that migrate to
> dconf later. That would remove the apps' responsibility to do the
> migration, which would be a lot of code to have that in all
> applications.

I was thinking that too, given the time required for bindings to catch
up for Mono and Python apps, but doing a migration from gconf on each
login would cancel out one of the main benefits of dconf: improved
performance at login (if I understand the wiki correctly).

> And yes, I support the move from gconf to dconf! :)

Yeah, this is a good idea.

Sandy