Re: dconf

[Ryan Lortie <desrt desrt ca>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 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.

That is approximately correct.

It's an open question if there will be a "update-dconf-schema-cache" 
program that you should run for optimum performance (compare: font 
cache, icon cache, etc).

Cheers