Re: Developer Platform Improvements?
- From: Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>
- To: GNOME Desktop Hackers <desktop-devel-list gnome org>, GNOME Hackers <gnome-hackers gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Developer Platform Improvements?
- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 20:01:55 +1000
<quote who="Jeff Waugh">
> Could maintainers of Developer Platform modules [1] please forward notes
> about DP improvements to the release team [2] for inclusion in the release
> notes?
Mark sent this great list of GConf notes, which serves as a good example and
hopefully encouragement to other maintainers (and interested parties). :-)
Here 'tis!
===
* The GConf daemon now maintains its locks in /tmp by default which
means GConf will not attempt to contact a daemon on a remote
machine if the user is using a shared NFS home directory. To use
the old behaviour of maintaining the lock in ~/.gconfd, you can
set the GCONF_GLOBAL_LOCKS environment variable.
* gconf_client_notify() to fake notifications. Useful way of reading
the initial values of GConf keys on programs startup.
* gconf_client_recursive_unset() to recursively unset all keys in a
directory and its sub-directories.
* gconf_entry_copy(), gconf_entry_ref() and gconf_entry_unref()
added for memory management of GConfEntry. gconf_entry_free() is
deprecated.
* several additions to gconftool:
+ --dump and --load to allow the dumping and loading of parts of
the GConf tree to and from xml. Useful, for making copies of
your preferences and such.
+ --get-type to find out the type of a key.
+ --get-list-size and --get-list-element for more fine-grained
access to lists.
+ --makefile-uninstall-rule to allow schemas to be
un-installed.
===
- Jeff
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