Re: dconf

[Havoc Pennington <havoc pennington gmail com>]

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> Le jeudi 02 avril 2009, à 12:31 -0400, Ryan Lortie a écrit :
>> This is honestly a problem space that I haven't spent too much time
>> exploring, but there are certainly possibilities here.
>
> Schemas are nice, IMHO, so it'd be nice to have people (not necessarily
> you) explore this problem space ;-)

s/nice/essential/

Otherwise as soon as two pieces of code both use a setting, you're f*d
because you have to hardcode the default value in both places. So it
breaks the idea of process-transparency (or even of using a setting
from two places in the same process) if you don't have some single
place for the default value to live.

pre-gconf we had loads and loads of bugs related to this, which is why
gconf addressed it.

(the old gnome_config_* solution was whenever you got a setting, you
had to provide the default, so the default was effectively
cut-and-pasted in N places)

Havoc