Re: dconf

[Havoc Pennington <havoc pennington gmail com>]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Michael Meeks <michael meeks novell com> wrote:
>        Another thing that perhaps isn't as easy as it could be around gconf is
> packaging, cleanly capturing the difference between a "make install"
> style developer use - where you want to merge settings to the prefix,
> and the "rpmbuild" style packager use where you want to defer that until
> package install time. Having simple, and nicely documented analogs of
> the various interesting gconftool-2 --makefile-install-foo type options
> would be great.
>

This should be designed out; the "schema install" silliness in gconf
was just not a good idea. The way I think dconf works (and the
recommendation on
http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/plans.html) is that schemas are
basically part of the app, much as glade files are, though in this
case they may be shared among apps. Anyway, hopefully "installing
schemas" just "dist_schemas_DATA = foo.schemas" in Makefile.am and
that's it.

Havoc