Re: Detecting GSettings/dconf and GConf at Runtime

[Philip Wernersbach <philip wernersbach gmail com>]

I know dconf can be used on the same system as GConf. We'd love to use dconf solely, and even though 98% of all distributions ship with it now, there is a requirement on the app to support the 2% that still use GConf only.

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:

dconf does not conflict with GConf, and is used by KDE as well. It should be available on most distributions.

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Philip Wernersbach <philip wernersbach gmail com> wrote:

We want to be able to support distributions that use gconf and not dconf. For instance, distributions that use the GNOME 2 desktop, but have GTK+3 libraries available.

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:

Why do you want to support both GSettings and GConf?

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Philip Wernersbach <philip wernersbach gmail com> wrote:

Hello,

I have a GTK+ app that has options for using GSettings and GConf. The settings backend that is used must be set at compile time. I'd like to make this a runtime decision, e.g. the app automatically tries the GSettings backend, and if that doesn't work it will use the GConf backend. How can I do this? I browsed the API documentation, and I didn't find any API's for querying whether the system supports GSettings and GConf. It seems like GLib just assumes that the functionality is there, whether it is actually present on the system or not.

Sincerely,

Philip Wernersbach

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