Re: gconf 1.0.x activates gconfd-2 server ?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com> writes:
> 
> I'm currently integrating GNOME 2 in Mandrake cooker and I've found one
> problem when both GConf 1.0.x and GConf 1.1.x are installed on the same
> system.
> 
> If user had galeon 1.2.x installed on his system, with galeon schemas
> registered in GConf 1, after installing gconf 1.1, galeon will not
> longer find its configuration info because its schemas is not registered
> in gconf2 database and gconf-internal from gconf 1.0.x always try to
> launch gconfd-2 if available (from ChangeLog : 2002-01-23  Havoc
> Pennington  <hp pobox com>
> gconf/gconf-internals.c(gconf_activate_server): try to use gconfd-2 if
> it exists)
> 
> Here is the problem..
> 
> There is two solutions : 
> -change launch order in gconf 1.0.x (first gconfd-1 otherwise gconfd-2) 
> -when installing GConf2, re-register all installed schemas from 1.0.x
> database in 1.1.x database (I'm not sure we will not be losing some
> settings..)
> 
> Havoc, WDYT ?

Check out my web page I just made, www.gnome.org/projects/gconf

You are shipping a GNOME 2 preview in a different prefix?

If you're doing that, what I would do is ship a default 
/opt/gnome2/etc/gconf/2/path that's identical to 
/etc/gconf/1/path, so that both gconfd are using the same storage. 
That should solve the problem.

Havoc