Re: Glib: a Win32 discussion

[Sam Thursfield <ssssam gmail com>]

2011/4/7 Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk pl gmail com>:
> 2011/4/6 Kean Johnston <kean johnston gmail com>:
>> Everyone,
>>
>> WARNING: long, detailed message. If you don't care about Win32, move on.
>
> Other annoying Windows issues specific to glib:
>
> <snip>
>
> 3. GSettings using the registry. This means portable apps (in the
> sense of apps that you can carry with you on an USB stick:
> http://portableapps.com/) cannot use it, because they have to store
> the settings somewhere on the USB stick, not in the registry. It
> should be possible to use dconf on Windows.

GSettings has switchable backends. An app, or a user, can choose
between the registry backend or the keyfile backend at runtime.

Sam