Re: Storing Preferences

[Larry Ewing <lewing novell com>]

On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 01:35 -0400, Gabriel Burt wrote:
> After a quick look, it doesn't appear F-Spot have a way to store user
> preferences. Bugs that need this functionality:
> 
> Previous window position/size, sidebar size
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310848
> 
> Photo scaling number in Gallery export
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305733
> 
> I haven't filed a bug for this yet, but previous state information
> (browsing or viewing a photo, and what scroll position/which picture)
> would be good too.
> 
> Are these things a no brainer for GConf, or is storing them in the DB an
> option/better?

These things are fairly reasonable to store in gconf bug things like
export account settings which have more structure are more trouble.  If
someone wants to cook up a patch to start storing simple settings in
gconf, that would be nice.

--Larry