Re: RFC GnomeGoal #3

["David Trowbridge" <trowbrds gmail com>]

gnome_config is deprecated, in favor of GKeyFile.

Unfortunately, GKeyFile is a lower-level API than gnome_config, making
you do things like figure out where to put the file yourself (and
really, with key:value files, figuring out where to put it is the
harder part).

-David

On 8/11/06, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 11:22 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > Heya,
> >
> > I've written up on GNOME Goal #3:
> > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoalsSaveState
> >
> > Currently, a lot of applications will be using GConf to save state, like
> > window sizes, whether or not a window is maximised on startup, etc.
> >
> > This is against GConf policy, as GConf might be read-only, or locked
> > down, but this sort of information should still be saved run-to-run.
> >
> > I'm awaiting comments on this, before making it official. Vincent
> > mentioned that it would be a good idea to get code to save state in a
> > library, although there isn't that much code to be shared IMO.
>
> We have a very easy library for doing this: libgnome.  The
> gnome_config family of functions are easy to work with for
> something this simple.
>
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/libgnome/libgnome-gnome-config.html
>
> It's what Yelp uses to store the width and height of its
> window.  See here:
>
> http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/yelp/src/yelp-window.c?rev=1.210&view=markup
>
> Search for "window_configure_cb".  Search again.  And now
> a third time.  Ah, there it is.  And the code for getting
> that information is in the window_init function.  It's way
> less code than using GKeyFile.
>
> And since we're on the subject, I consider it a fundamental
> flaw in all of these approaches that we're storing window
> positions and sizes without regard for what machine we're
> running on.  (Yes, Yelp has this flaw too.)  If I'm running
> multiple machines off the same NFS home directory, and one
> of them has a smaller resolution, bad things will happen.
>
> --
> Shaun
>
>
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