Re: Anyone interested in keeping pessulus alive?

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le mardi 13 mars 2012, à 10:11 -0400, Colin Walters a écrit :
> On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 14:00 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Pessulus was a configuration lockdown editor for GNOME 2. It never got
> > ported to GNOME 3, as it more or less involves a complete rewrite (move
> > to introspection-based bindings and move to GSettings) and nobody found
> > the motivation to do so.
> 
> Hm, but we haven't removed pygtk and GConf (as far as I know).  So the
> issue is more that it doesn't know how to lock down GNOME 3?  Or are
> we missing equivalent keys?
> 
> Or are we just saying it should be archived because it uses deprecated
> functionality?  Or some mix of this?
> 
> I guess the question is - is it really totally worthless right now?

It is totally worthless because it works on GConf keys that either don't
exist anymore (for some apps, like epiphany, gnome-panel, etc.) or that
are ignored by apps now (lockdown keys from libgnome).

Vincent

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