Re: About gsettings aborting on unkown schemas

[Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan club fr>]

Le lundi 30 mai 2011 à 20:17 -0400, Morten Welinder a écrit :
> Doing a g_return_val_if_fail is fine here.  That will give the user a
> chance of saving his work.  This is in contrast to g_error which is a
> sure way of eating data.
There's no "work" of "data" here. Programs load GSettings on start, and
OTC it's far better for users' data to ensure a program won't start
without schemas. If it pretends to work, it might crash at any point
because the code paths run when schemas are not present are poorly
tested (if at all), and do nasty things to the data it works with.


Regards