Re: using gsettings / gconf in extensions

[Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan club fr>]

Le mardi 31 mai 2011 à 16:02 +1000, Tim Cuthbertson a écrit :
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Giovanni Campagna
> <scampa giovanni gmail com> wrote:
> > A good question, I didn't think of that. In which case, the only
> > solution (except for env var hacks) lies in glib loading schemas from
> > ~/.local/share/glib-2.0/schemas or
> > ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/<uuid>.
> 
> these env var hacks you speak of, what env vars would be necessary?
> This could be useful for testing / development versions. Would
> gsettings respect $XDG_DATA_DIRS by any chance?
There's $GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR. It also uses $XDG_DATA_DIRS AFAICT, but
~/.local/share isn't a system data dir, so better avoid this kind of
hack that can affect other things and use the former.


Cheers