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

[Ryan Lortie <desrt desrt ca>]

hi

On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 15:15 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote:
> But if you provide an API with GFile, I suppose people will
> expect to be able to hand it all sorts of GFiles, so storing
> the URI would be preferable.

I think this is getting ridiculous.

As it stands, I made recent modifications to GVariant, adding support
for 'bytestring's (which are arrays of bytes 'ay') and 'bytestring
arrays'.

  GVariant * g_settings_new_bytestring (const gchar *);
  const gchar * g_settings_get_bytestring (GVariant *);

There's currently no GSettings convenience API for those, but I could
add it if there are requests.

I doubt I will ever add an API for GFile.  Storing a filename into
GSettings isn't done *that* often, and when it is done there are clearly
very different ideas about the way it should be done.

Cheers