plugins schema

[Patrick Welche <prlw1 cam ac uk>]

I just tried installing eog 3.4.3 from source, with no eog-plugins.

If I run eog, I get

  Settings schema 'org.gnome.eog.plugins' is not installed

which is true, I don't, but I do have org.gnome.eog.gschema.xml which
references

    <child name="plugins" schema="org.gnome.eog.plugins"/>

So the question is, how is eog.convert meant to work?

It looks as though it is meant to take a pre-existing eog installation's
GConf settings and create a org.gnome.eog.plugins schema from it.
Is this right, and does that mean that a fresh installation like mine with
no GConf can't create it?

Cheers,

Patrick