Re: Module proposal: dconf

[Ghee Teo <Ghee Teo Sun COM>]

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.
>   
Can the migration plan/tools also include migrating (even if it one off) 
user's gconf values, since it is fairy common for users to move from 
from version of GNOME to a newer one. The last thing we want to user 
sees is that their previous settings are lost.

-Ghee
> Ryan, you might also want to detail out the benefits over gconf.
>
> Also, devhelp has a branch for a port to dconf, iirc. So that might be
> something that people might want to look at to get some idea of what
> this involved.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Vincent
>
>