Re: [orca-list] Orca & GSettings

[Alejandro Leiva <aleiva emergya es>]

El 04/06/2010, a las 16:03, Joanmarie Diggs escribió:

> Hey Steve.
>
> > (microsoft), gsettings, etc.  In fact, today is the first time I ever
> > heard of gsettings.  How easy is it to verify values in gsettings?
>
> I'll leave this question to the more knowledgeable folks (i.e. the guys
> from Emergya).
>
> > But if that is the direction to go, I guess we haven't
> > much choice, do we.
>
> Well, we (Orca team) have caught flack over the years for not being a
> "good GNOME citizen." Good GNOME citizens don't roll their own settings.
> Good GNOME citizens are also no longer using gconf but are migrating to
> gsettings as part of GNOME 3.0. So ultimately that's where things are
> going. And ultimately, I'm not convinced we do have that much of a
> choice.
>
> Having said that, I think that this conversion is going to prove to be
> valuable to us in ways far beyond earning the respect of our fellow
> modules. In particular:
>
> * Make it possible for us to work better with the new Universal 
>  Preferences UI.
>
> * Make the saving and loading of settings much more straightforward 
>  (which in turn will give us things like fast language switching)
>
> * Make it possible to change settings on the fly without having to 
>  write them all out
>
> * Solve the problem where a screwed-up user-settings.py file completely 
>  hoses Orca
>
> * Fix a bunch of quirky settings bugs y'all have discovered over the 
>  years
>
> * Other stuff I'm probably not thinking of at the moment. Need more
>  coffee....
>
> So I for one welcome our new gsettings overlords. And I'm extremely
> grateful to have Emergya doing this work, and the support of the
> Consorcio Fernando de los Ríos/Junta de Andalucía making it possible.
>
> Take care.
> --joanie


Joanie, you get the point about this transition. Orca will be hardened in many ways with only putting order 
in its settings handling.

Cheers,
--
Alejandro Leiva
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