Re: Module proposal: dconf

[Michael Meeks <michael meeks novell com>]

On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 11:27 -0400, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> dconf brings in no new external dependencies [except, see below about
> glib].  There is also a separate module, 'dconf-editor', however, that
> uses Vala.

	In terms of migration, is there any reason why we cannot re-implement
most of the gconf client library layered on top of dconf - with
presumably some automagic schema conversion in place of the
gconftool-2 --makefile-foo-install-baa ?

	If not, I would love to get fully up-to-speed on dconf by understanding
the differences that would make that a bad idea :-) [ presumably this is
an FAQ ]

	Otherwise, it sounds like a good idea to me; though - can you confirm
that the latest implementation does not scatter data we need to read on
login / app launch across tens of tiny files, and that the authoritative
data store is somewhat human readable ? :-)

	Thanks,

		Michael.

-- 
 michael meeks novell com  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot