Re: Module proposal: dconf

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 17:18 +0200, Pierre Wieser wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Just my 10cents piece, as I'm afraid I'm not really involved
> in the decision.
> 
> As a new maintainer - about six month on nautilus-actions -
> I've already had to migrate from Gvfs to GIO, from libglade
> to GtkBuilder, and, obviously, soon from GConf to dconf.
> 
> In GIO and in GtkBuilder, I had to suffer of regressions,
> whether some api didn't exist in the new product (mostly
> uri parsing in GIO), or bugs that were not fixed before the
> migration decision (GtkBuilder: the id is no more unique
> inside of a toplevel, not even fix today - see #579345).
> 
> I'm not able to estimate how much the new products are better
> that the previous ones, but I, and I think other developpers
> too, would greatly appreciate if new products had at least
> same functionalities than the one they replace.
> 
> Really, guys, developpers need a minimum of stability to be
> efficient.
> 
> I don't even talk of advanced users that we ask to directly
> edit their GConf system because lot of applications have
> preferences only editable through GConf editor.
> 
> All, we work to build a better free desktop.
> But migrating three times in six months without any visible
> gain is a pain.
> 
you are right, but this is not usual, it is just that you joined GNOME
development in the middle of the GNOME 2.x to 3.x transition :) Once all
these libs are settled down, things should go back to normal