Re: Module proposal: dconf

[Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Iain <iain gnome org> wrote:
> While not disagreeing with you on the need for migration
>
>> * A bunch of metadata related to synchronization that, if lost,
>> requires you to "start over", which an upgrading user might find to be
>> a hassle
>> * List of "pinned" notes that always show up in tomboy tray menu
>> * Some keys used to determine if it's the first run
>
> were the sort of things that were never meant to be stored in GConf
> because write access to the GConf DB is not guarenteed so the user
> cannot set anything.
> In these cases the keys used to determine if it's the first run could
> never be set, so it would always be the first run for the user, pinned
> notes would never be pinned and synchronization would always require
> you to start over.
>
> These things should have been stored with a GKeyFile in the
> ~/.config/Tomboy directory, IMO

If that's the case, I'll happily migrate them there.  Thanks for the info!

Sandy