Re: gtk3: FileChooser schema not found

[Kevin DeKorte <kdekorte gmail com>]

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On 02/14/2011 04:08 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2011, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>
> > I have glib 2.28.0 installed, along with gtk 2.24.0 and gtk 3.0.0.
> > Calls to the FileChooser in my app work as expected in 2.24, but
> > in 3.0.0 they produce:
> >
> > GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser'
> > is not installed
> >
> > and the program aborts. The file
> > org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser.gschema.xml is installed in
> > $prefix/share/glib-2.0/schemas (2133 bytes).
>
> Solution: $prefix/share is not searched by default. This path must
> be present in XDG_DATA_DIRS if the FileChooser is to work, as in
> XDG_DATA_DIRS=/opt/gtk3/share:/usr/share...
>
> Allin Cottrell

To me that is probably the biggest disadvantage with using GSettings is
that the application will crash if settings can't be found. I would like
to see this behavior changed to be more like gconf where missing keys
are allowed to be missing.

Kevin



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