Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Trunk sources

[Peter Robinson <pbrobinson gmail com>]

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Julien Puydt <jpuydt free fr> wrote:
> 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.

There's gsettings-schema-convert [1] and other tools to help make the
transition as painless as possible so they should be able to help.
Will be interesting to see if someone writes a gsettings backend for
the windows registry :-)

Peter

[1] http://library.gnome.org/devel/gio/unstable/gsettings-schema-convert.html