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

[Danielle Madeley <danielle madeley collabora co uk>]

On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 00:10 +0100, James Sharpe wrote:

> 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?

There are two ways of doing this I can see. Using the same schema with
multiple paths or making the keys dictionaries.

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Danielle Madeley
Software Developer, Collabora Ltd.                  Melbourne, Australia

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