Re: Module proposal: dconf

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 17:39 +0100, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> 2009/10/14 Xavier Claessens <xclaesse gmail com>:
> > 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.
> >
> > This is great news! I'm all in favor of dconf. Do you have plans to move
> > to GNOME plateforme? IMO that really should replace gconf for GNOME3,
> > this should be part of the "cleanup plateform" goal IMO.
> >
> > However I have a few questions:
> >
> >  - How do we migrate user settings from gconf to dconf? If it is not
> > done on GSettings/dconf level, that means that all applications will
> > still have to link on libgconf to read old values and save them on new
> > dconf keys at startup, and set a flag "settings converted" so that
> > conversion is ran only once.
> 
> Is there a need to convert user settings? I mean, we're talking about
> GNOME 3.0 here, most sensible data is stored via
> evolution-data-server, tracker, or other custom storage so the only
> difference would be appearance. I don't think that migration is an
> issue.
> 
e-d-s stores the data in GConf, so it needs to be migrated indeed. Also,
even though the desktop-wide settings might be obsoleted
(/desktop/GNOME, for instance), apps still need their /apps/$app
configuration tree to be migrated, since they would probably keep using
the same conf entries