Re: help with gconf basics

[Steven Jenkins <steven jenkins ieee org>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 01:53:32PM -0800, Steven Jenkins wrote:
>
> >	    /apps/tidal/adc/device
> >	    /apps/tidal/adc/device
>
>
> You can't use the same key to store the schema, and to store your
> config value. The schema is a separate object.

Ah. I knew it had to be a blind spot on my part. I remember being 
confused about the example, in which the schema key .../fooandbar was 
applied to both .../foo and .../bar. I was looking at the leaf end and 
didn't notice the leading /schemas. Now it makes more sense.

> >When I run it on an invalid key, it dumps core:
> >$ ./test /apps/tidal/adc/devicex
> >./cmds: line 1: 11268 Segmentation fault      ./test 
> /apps/tidal/adc/devicex
> >
>
>
> Because no error occurred, but you are trying to use "err->message"
>
> "No value set" returns NULL, but is not an error.

OK. *Seems* like an error, but.... :-)

> Re: GConfClient vs. GConfEngine, GConfClient is just higher-level and
> smarter. In GConf 2, GConfClient has no GTK dependency.
>
> The smarts probably don't matter so much if you aren't doing change
> notification, though GConfClient may still give you faster startup
> time, if you add_directory with PRELOAD_ONELEVEL or PRELOAD_RECURSIVE
> to minimize round trips.

I'll keep that in mind. For what I'm doing, it probably doesn't matter.

Thanks for the quick reply.

Steve