Re: How does epiphany read its configuration?

[Leonid Isaev <leonid isaev jila colorado edu>]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 02:45:07PM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Leonid Isaev via epiphany-list
> <epiphany-list gnome org> wrote:
> > I thought settings are also stored in
> > ~/.config or similar $XDG dirs, so I kept ~/.config/dconf/user and
> > removed
> > ~/{.config,.local/share,.cache}/{epiphany,webkitgtk}. However, correct
> > settings
> > are still loaded on epiphany startup.
> >     But how is that possible? Does it access dconf DB directly without
> > dbus?
>
> Hi,
>
> That would be my guess.

Interestingly, epiphany can read dconf settings, but not write...

> To find out for sure, you would need a deeper investigation into GSettings
> and dconf. I would ask on desktop-devel-list gnome org; maybe somebody there
> would know.

Thanks, I will.

Cheers,
L.

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Leonid Isaev