Re: thoughts on GSettingsList

[Christian Persch <chpe gnome org>]

Hi;

> Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org> wrote:
> In g-t, the user names a profile and can rename it later.  The name
> can have arbitrary Unicode characters.  Logically it means that the
> name cannot be used directly in the conf database, so g-t cleans it
> up.  Moreover, since profile renames are supported, the conf name for
> a new item may already be taken.  Say:
> 
>   - User creates profile "Remote Server", it shows up in the database
> as profiles/remote-server/
> 
>   - Later on, use renames "Remote Server" to "Old Server".  The
> database key remains at profiles/remote-server/
> 
>   - User creates new profile called "Remote Server", the database key
> profiles/remote-server/ is taken, so we use profiles/remote-server-2/

That might be how g-t used to work, but it doesn't do it this way
anymore. It just uses "ProfileN" as gconf directory name for new
profiles, where N is the first unused number.

	Christian