Want an advice: How to save/restore the state of GTK widgets

[Paul Bunyk <paul pbunyk physics sunysb edu>]

Hello, everyone!

I wonder if there is any recommended/suggested/easy way to save and
restore the state of some of my widgets (text inputs and checkboxes
for now) to/from a file. User can specify some path names, etc., in
my GTK application and I want to give user a chance to save his setup
in $HOME/.apprc file to be read on application startup. Of course I
can do it manually, but would not it be nice to automate this task?

All suggestions are welcome!

Paul

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