Re: GConf plans for 2.8

[William Jon McCann <mccannwj pha jhu edu>]

Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>   * Allow notifications from backends:
>
>     http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107692
>
>     At the moment gconfd itself notifies from operations which change 
>     values. This patch adds an API for backends which allows them to
>     notice values have changed and inform gconfd. It will be useful
>     for backends like the LDAP backend or if we figure out a sane
>     way for the XML backend to notice files have changed and reload.
>
>
>   * API to allow arbitrary stacks of sources:
>
>     http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88829
>
>     The patch basically just adds the gconf_engine_get_for_addresses() 
>     API, but involves significant re-factoring of parts of GConf. The 
>     idea here is that we could make gconf-editor into a useful sysadmin 
>     tool which allows you to create new configuration sources and model 
>     how it would look when added to the default sources list.

Hi,

Could these be used in combination with the Project Utopia stack to 
detect and add gconf sources on removable media?  And later detect when 
they are removed...

Carrying around my gconf settings, etc. on a key drive would be pretty cool.

Jon