Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] involve in development of Ekiga (multiple instances)

[Julien PUYDT <jpuydt free fr>]

Peter Robinson a écrit :
> > The first hurdle will probably be to get gconf to behave : whenever you
> > change the preferences in gconf, you'll impact all running instances --
> > which is bad. There must be some way to get around this by running a
> > separate gconf daemon for each instance, or something like this. I would
> > dig in that direction.
>
> How does the win32 version do configuration stuff, is this handled
> using gconf or using registry/flat file or something else. If its flat
> file could the same be used for this sort of testing on *nix without
> needing gconf (using just gtk+ version perhaps?).

When I began to make a win32 port possible, a long, long time ago, I 
abstracted gconf into a gmconf system, for which I provided a gconf 
implementation, and a glib implementation. The glib implementation is 
file-based, in an xml format mostly compatible with gconf's (which is 
why even without gconf we built the default gconf configuration file).

The problem is that ekiga saves its current configuration to this file 
every two minutes (or something like this), so if you want to have 
several instances running, you'll end up with them competing for that 
file (unless you have ekiga-foo, ekiga-bar, ekiga-baz, each with its own 
config file... which can perhaps be done).

Snark