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

[Peter Robinson <pbrobinson gmail com>]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Eugen Dedu
<Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr> wrote:
> 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.

The 2.25 release is the devel release headed to 2.26. The gnome-3
cycle is outlined on the wiki [1] and Aug 16th it states 0 modules
depending on GConf.

http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointThirtyone