Re: How does epiphany read its configuration?

[Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro igalia com>]

On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Leonid Isaev via epiphany-list 
<epiphany-list gnome org> wrote:
> I thought settings are also stored in
> ~/.config or similar $XDG dirs, so I kept ~/.config/dconf/user and 
> removed
> ~/{.config,.local/share,.cache}/{epiphany,webkitgtk}. However, 
> correct settings
> are still loaded on epiphany startup.
> 	But how is that possible? Does it access dconf DB directly without 
> dbus?

Hi,

That would be my guess.

To find out for sure, you would need a deeper investigation into 
GSettings and dconf. I would ask on desktop-devel-list gnome org; maybe 
somebody there would know.

Michael

P.S. ~/.config/dconf/user is where the settings are stored.