Re: desktop schemas review [was: Re: GSettings migration status]

[James Sharpe <mail jsharpe net>]

On 3 July 2010 12:58, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:

Hi,

Le samedi 03 juillet 2010, à 13:37 +0200, Christian Persch a écrit :

> Hi;
>
> I think we should use the opportunity of converting to gsettings to
> redesign the desktop schemas, not just do a 1:1 translation from gconf.
>
> Let me make some remarks about the gsettings desktop schemas as
> they right now are in gsettings-desktop-schemas module.

Thanks, it's good that someone takes time to review the schemas! I
merely converted them so people couldn't use the excuse we don't have
them yet to not port their code to GSettings ;-)

Might I suggest that you take the opportunity at this point to extend the schema to at least consider support for multiple desktops / monitors. One of the difficulties that I found when looking at this in GSOC a few years back was that there was no way of supporting use of schemas when you had a dynamic number of items that needed the same configuration (e.g. background/screen0, background/screen1 etc), If this functionality is still not available with GSettings shouldn't it be put on the list of things to be addressed for the future?

 

James