[Ekiga-devel-list] GSettings in ekiga

[Julien Puydt <jpuydt free fr>]

Hi,

here is what I have done :
- look the api and try to get a grip on it ;
- update the gmconf api in various ways :
  * remove unused code ;
  * remove useless code ;
  * tweak the api a little (a small leak nest just got away) ;
- write some GSettings code.

Most of it is in master already -- only the last part isn't yet.

What the code I wrote lacks :
- initialization code ;
- actually triggering the callbacks when configuration gets changed ;
- check for valid sanity (I never compiled it -- it's just correct in my 
head) ;
- appear in Makefile.am (see previous point) ;
- an option in configure for gmconf-as-gsettings ;
- a schema (should be done by converting the gconf schema) ;
- a migration path for our users (I have no clear idea how to do that yet).

I plan to move the gconf schema to lib/gmconf/ (and move everything 
related to it there), since that makes more sense -- will it be a 
problem for packagers?

What annoys me deeply for now -- and the main reason I didn't bother to 
make my code compiled yet, is that I don't have the right glib on my 
system. Yes, debian *unstable* doesn't have glib >= 2.26 yet. Of course, 
I could get out of my way and probably find experimental packages 
somewhere. But why does gnome want to move to GSettings if it isn't even 
in the *bleeding edge* distributions yet!? Won't it give us headaches 
with our users? For instance, http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html 
says that we don't have 2.26 available on win32 either...

What is your opinion? When should I push to master for more specific 
comments?

Snark