Re: GConf merged tree with split translations

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hi,
	I've switched this on by default now for the defaults database now.
Please keep an eye out for any weird issues that might have been caused
by this.

Cheers,
Mark.

On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 15:38 +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hey,
> 	I've finally gotten around to committing some code[1] to implement the
> conlusions wrt. GConf which we came to as a result of Lorenzo's
> excellent analysis[2]
> 
> 	Basically, the markup backend (in "merged tree" mode) now stores
> translations of schema descriptions in separate per-locale files. The
> idea is to load the entire GConf database in one go to avoid lots of
> seeking, whilst also avoiding the overhead of loading the descriptions
> of keys for locales which will never be used during the session.
> 
> 	Hopefully, we'll switch this on for the defaults database for GNOME
> 2.14. It'll need some further profiling and testing, though.
> 
> 	To test it out, build and install GConf head (or apply the patch below)
> and run: 
> 
>   $> gconf-merge-tree $(prefix)/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults
> 
> 	The directory should then look like:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x  55 markmc markmc    4096 Nov 12 16:18 apps
> drwxr-xr-x   3 markmc markmc    4096 Nov 12 16:18 desktop
> -rw-r--r--   1 markmc markmc  141968 Nov 17 20:12 %gconf-tree-af.xml
> -rw-r--r--   1 markmc markmc   33759 Nov 17 20:12 %gconf-tree-am.xml
> -rw-r--r--   1 markmc markmc  573836 Nov 17 20:12 %gconf-tree-ar.xml
> -rw-r--r--   1 markmc markmc  494313 Nov 17 20:12 %gconf-tree-az.xml
> ...
> -rw-r--r--   1 markmc markmc 3052624 Nov 25 10:19 %gconf-tree.xml
> ...
> drwxr-xr-x   5 markmc markmc    4096 Nov 12 16:18 schemas
> drwxr-xr-x   8 markmc markmc    4096 Nov 12 16:18 system
> 
> 	Hopefully, no-one should notice any difference aside from a shorter
> login time. Please file bugs if any issues do crop up.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark.
> 
> [1] - http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/code/gconf-merged-tree-split-translations.patch
> [2] - http://www.gnome.org/~lcolitti/gnome-startup/analysis/