Re: About gsettings aborting on unkown schemas

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On 2011-05-27 at 11:04, Morten Welinder wrote:
> > you can say that all you want, but it's absolutely *not* a bug.
> 
> Of course it is.  With this bug, programs crash where they other-
> wise could limp on.

potentially eating away data? without schema you don't have a default to
fall back to for application preferences and for state. it might end up
deleting existing account data, for instance. or eating your files.

> It's like changing all g_return_if_fail calls into asserts

no, it's nothing like that.

> It is absolutely not like missing your main ui file.  You can't limp
> on from that in a meaningful way.

no, it's even *worse*, because a missing UI will not eat your data.

> And note, that in the gconf age handling this was not a problem
> at all.

yes, and it was one of the major design issues identified by the gconf
authors years ago, and one of the pre-conditions for a new settings
system.

> This bug makes it hard to keep multiple versions of a program
> installed without making settings per-version which has its own
> problems.

it doesn't have any more problems than using two different libraries, or
using two different prefixes, or using two different UI files.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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