Re: thoughts on GSettingsList

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 05/15/2010 03:08 PM, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 14:45 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>> It would be immensely helpful if GSettingsList can do the cleaning up and
>> dup-avoiding part.  So, add_item() will in fact get a name *hint*, clean it
>> [1] up, avoid dup, and return the key name.
> 
> Note that in the interface I gave, add_item() takes no arguments at all.
> My current thinking involves creating a uuid-ish thing to store in the
> database.  This would have some nice properties when it comes time to
> considering how we would merge dconf databases (by making collisions
> less likely).

I see.  So, totally random names...  A hint would make browsing the database
easier indeed.  I still prefer short names though.

> Indeed, I used to support a hint here that would become the "prefix" of
> the new name.  Perhaps I will also feature this in the new version after
> all.
> 
>> Other than that, I know you already know, but is worth stressing: please avoid
>> magic keys and values if you can :P.
> 
> GSettings key naming conventions prohibit you from having a "." in a key
> name, so having "dot files" is not really a case of magic keys but
> rather a case of "something else entirely".

Ok, so they are implementation details really...

Cheers,
behdad

> Thanks for the feedback.
> 
> Cheers
> 
>