Re: Question about gsettings in relation to gnome-shell extensions.

[Yaa101 <yaa101 xs4all nl>]

Thanks for the answers Jasper, you have seen that I answered also
myself.

> > First of all, where on the filesystem can I find the gsettings
> > database?
> 
> Depends on the backend. For the dconf backend, it's in
> ~/.config/dconf/user

I want to know specific for extensions, just for my mental picture.

So the convenience.js reads the compiled schema and hands it to the
script, that part is clear.

But when I changed one of the keys of my schema, where is that result
stored?



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//\  Regards, Groeten,
V_/_ Bas Burger.


On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:56:09 -0400
"Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Yaa101 <yaa101 xs4all nl> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I like to know a few extra things about gsettings that I was not
> > able to find in google.
> >
> > First of all, where on the filesystem can I find the gsettings
> > database?
> 
> Depends on the backend. For the dconf backend, it's in
> ~/.config/dconf/user
> 
> > Second, I want to know how a gnome-shell extension react to it's
> > settings in the database.
> > Are the settings live, so that I can change a setting and that the
> > extension will automatically pick it up when it requests a
> > key/settings pair.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Or are the settings loaded once at the initialisation fase of the
> > extension and that the extension has to be reloaded to see the new
> > settings.
> 
> No. But you have to connect to the setting to react to it.
> 
> > Or is there a event fired when settings changed?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Third-related to the second question, is there a way to give a
> > command from or share info between the new gnome-shell extension
> > preferences box and the extension.
> 
> No. It's designed to be launched from the web, where you cannot pass a
> command line parameter.
> 
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> > V_/_ Bas Burger.
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