Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] GSettings in ekiga

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

On 10/06/10 18:12, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Julien Puydt<jpuydt free fr>  wrote:
> > 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...
>
> It is in Fedora rawhide. Clearly Debian experimental isn't that
> bleeding edge :-P
>
> But the dconf side of it is still relatively new, its all only been in
> Fedora for less than a month.

Where it is written that GSettings are mandatory for gnome 3.0?  We 
could ask André Klapper for that.  Moreover, glib 2.26 does not yet 
exist (2.25 is the current).  I suppose there is a misunderstanding here.

--
Eugen