Re: dconf

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 04/16/2009 06:17 PM, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 10:23 -0400, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> > Callum McKenzie wrote:
> > > Can current gconf settings be easily loaded into dconf? e.g. can someone
> > > launching into a gnome 3.0, dconf-based, system for the first time still
> > > have the same wallpaper settings as they did before?
> > >
> > > I'm assuming that a) the settings still make sense and b) that the
> > > application can provide a mapping between old and new settings.
> > Yes, but currently this would have to be completely manual and would
> > require the application to link to both dconf and GConf.  This sucks.
> >
> > I guess a good solution would be to provide some easy-to-use framework
> > by which applications could have migration scripts in python or
> > something.  That way the application itself doesn't need to do GConf,
> > but the python script can if GConf is still installed.
> >
> > Ideas are definitely welcome in this direction.
> there could be a process started by gnome-shell that just migrates the
> whole GConf database to dconf? or is this automatic migration not
> possible?

Definitely possible.  But I'm yet to see a reason why a fully API-compatible 
gconf client can't be written on top of dconf.  And when that happens, we can 
mount the current gconf tree under dconf's /org/gnome transparently and not 
have to worry as much.

My .02CAD
behdad