Re: Module proposal: dconf

[Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Ryan Lortie <desrt desrt ca> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 14:00 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
>> if dconf listens to changes in gconf, 3rd party apps would just need to
>> link to glib/GSettings instead of libgconf, and their migration would be
>> done automatically, right?
>
> dconf won't be made to listen to GConf.  One alternative, though, is
> that a GSettings backend could be written that uses GConf (and its
> existing database) instead of dconf.  This would allow applications to
> use the new API to access their existing settings in the existing
> database.
>
> dconf could be brought in later.

That doesn't fix anything; it just delays an identical migration.

Sandy