Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Trunk sources



Le mercredi 02 juin 2010 à 10:05 +0100, Peter Robinson a écrit :
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Julien Puydt <jpuydt free fr> wrote:
> > Le 01/06/2010 23:50, Peter Robinson a écrit :
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Julien Puydt<jpuydt free fr>  wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Le 01/06/2010 18:50, yannick a écrit :
> >>>>
> >>>> Le mardi 01 juin 2010 à 15:50 +0200, Julien Puydt a écrit :
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Well, it uses it through dbus, as far as I know -- so indeed it doesn't
> >>>>> binary-depend on it, but should nicely use it when available.
> >>>>
> >>>> Then I probably mistaken this: did not Matthias used HAL for the hotplug
> >>>> device system?
> >>>
> >>> Yes, HAL through DBUS. So it's using HAL, but since it does it through a
> >>> proxy, we don't binary depend on it. At least that's how I understand it.
> >>
> >> Also while we're on the topic of obsolete libraries what is the plan
> >> for migrating from GConf to gsettings as that is also on the chopping
> >> block for gnome 3? It might be a worthwhile time to review the
> >> settings code as I think there's some custom gconf style code to deal
> >> with windows as well, not sure if there's a windows backend for
> >> gsettings at all, but if so it might be a nice way to unify that bit.
> >
> > Here is how things work in ekiga :
> > - we have an abstraction called gmconf, which is used all over ekiga ;
> > - we have a gconf implementation of that abstraction, with a nice XML schema
> > file containing the default settings ;
> > - we have a glib implementation of the abstraction, which is able to read
> > the schema file, and is portable -- that one is used when gconf isn't
> > available, like for win32.
> >
> > That means porting to GSettings should be pretty straightforward -- porting
> > the big gconf schema file is what worries me most, but since it's XML, it
> > should be possible to do it automatically.
> 
> There's gsettings-schema-convert [1] and other tools to help make the
> transition as painless as possible so they should be able to help.
> Will be interesting to see if someone writes a gsettings backend for
> the windows registry :-)
> 
> Peter
> 
> [1] http://library.gnome.org/devel/gio/unstable/gsettings-schema-convert.html

"ssam" wrote a windows backend for gsettings last summer:

http://ssam.livejournal.com/9604.html

I did not find new updates since then:
http://gitorious.org/gsettings-gtk/gsettings/commits/windows-registry

Best regards,
Yannick




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