Re: Exposing gconf key names

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 08:37:26PM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> 
> > Now, this key is "owned" by gnome-vfs (i.e. it is described / defined in
> > a schema file that gnome-vfs installs), along with a number of other
> > gconf keys. Would it make sense, therefore, for gnome-vfs to expose
> > these keys via some constants in a public header file? 
> 
> I think that makes sense. Adding a function call which reads the key and
> returns it to the app may also be useful, that would allow gnome-vfs to
> handle your backward compatibility concern.

How would this work? It sounds like gconf_client_get_value(). Or are
you suggesting that it would try to use CONF_HTTP_PROXY_HOST and, if
that is not defined, use OLD_CONF_PROXY_HOST or something?

Confused,
Malcolm

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