Re: dconf

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Ryan:

> I was not familiar with these bugs.

I'm glad to bring them to your attention, then, since I think it
relates to the work in dconf.

> One thing is definitely true: for reading from the configuration
> settings, these bugs will not be an issue because you don't need to use
> the bus or launch the service at all for this to work.
>
> For writing, it's really hard to say. This seems like a wider DBus issue
> affecting all things that use it. Depending on how those bugs are
> resolved upstream, the result will be different for dconf. It seems, in
> general, we need to have a better-defined idea of what a session is.
>
> I assume the reason that these bugs bother you is because GConf used to
> work properly under 'su' when it was straight-up CORBA?

Many people have complained to me about the fact that the configuration
management can't start unless D-Bus is running.  People don't
understand the need to run dbus-launch when they just want to run some
program which uses GConf or dconf.  It makes it awkward to run programs
outside of normal D-Bus enabled user sessions.  The fact that this
causes problems with "su" is just an example of a wider problem and
probably the most annoying aspect of the bug to normal users.

Brian