Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Trunk sources

[Julien Puydt <jpuydt free fr>]

Le 01/06/2010 23:50, Peter Robinson a écrit :
> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Julien Puydt<jpuydt free fr>  wrote:
> > Le 01/06/2010 18:50, yannick a écrit :
> > > Le mardi 01 juin 2010 à 15:50 +0200, Julien Puydt a écrit :
> > > > Well, it uses it through dbus, as far as I know -- so indeed it doesn't
> > > > binary-depend on it, but should nicely use it when available.
> > >
> > > Then I probably mistaken this: did not Matthias used HAL for the hotplug
> > > device system?
> >
> > Yes, HAL through DBUS. So it's using HAL, but since it does it through a
> > proxy, we don't binary depend on it. At least that's how I understand it.
>
> Also while we're on the topic of obsolete libraries what is the plan
> for migrating from GConf to gsettings as that is also on the chopping
> block for gnome 3? It might be a worthwhile time to review the
> settings code as I think there's some custom gconf style code to deal
> with windows as well, not sure if there's a windows backend for
> gsettings at all, but if so it might be a nice way to unify that bit.

Here is how things work in ekiga :
- we have an abstraction called gmconf, which is used all over ekiga ;
- we have a gconf implementation of that abstraction, with a nice XML 
schema file containing the default settings ;
- we have a glib implementation of the abstraction, which is able to 
read the schema file, and is portable -- that one is used when gconf 
isn't available, like for win32.

That means porting to GSettings should be pretty straightforward -- 
porting the big gconf schema file is what worries me most, but since 
it's XML, it should be possible to do it automatically.

Snark