Re: Module proposal: dconf

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 15:15 +0000, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Ross Burton <ross burtonini com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Not providing a migration path will probably delay adoption of
> > dconf/gsettings into Debian because Debian tries it's hardest to
> > preserve user configuration, even during an update.  There are long and
> > scary scripts which can migrate gnome-panel 1.x to 2.x in Debian...
> 
> I think we need some migration for things which are important (fonts)
> and/or highly user-visible (background) at a minimum.  Now if we
> migrate gnome-panel then clearly those scripts have to get pretty
> scary.
> 
> So the question isn't "do we migrate or not", but "how much do we migrate".
> 
> -- Colin, who long ago wrote the first bits of those scripts, but if
> tasked with it this time would probably write them in something better
> than Perl


Can dconf import exported gconf xml? 

if so then its a non-issue and a migration script can easily be written
using gconftool and dconftool

if not I would suggest supporting that

jamie