Re: dconf

[Havoc Pennington <havoc pennington gmail com>]

Hi,

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Rob Taylor <rob taylor codethink co uk> wrote:
> Actually, no, the su problem is completely orthogonal, this is something
> that needs addressing in DBus itself and is fixable.
>

fwiw after thinking about it and colin's comments, I think the bug is
somewhat mis-filed living in dbus bugtracker; it's really not a dbus
question, it's more of a policy question or UI question for the whole
desktop.

I suggested a couple alternatives toward the end of:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17970#c23

anyhow, I would recommend someone write down various use cases,
document something like "possible direction 1" or "possible direction
2" in my comment, or some other approach, explaining how
gnome-settings-daemon, screensaver inhibition, single-instance apps,
gconf/dconf, ssh, and various stuff like that "should" work, and then
we could commence fixing dbus, fixing apps, fixing ssh, etc. according
to the same documented scheme.

sort of like: http://standards.freedesktop.org/clipboards-spec/clipboards-latest.txt

This went round-and-round with various app-specific bugs until someone
documented an overall strategy, then fixing individual apps could be
converging on a single approach.

Anyway, need a doc that really explains how *everything* gets fixed,
not just specific cases, since fixing specific cases tends to break
other cases. (Which may be inevitable, so the cases that can't work
need to be documented also.)

Havoc