Re: Gnome2::GConf beta

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 07:51 PM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:

> [ the tarball includes a porting of the basic-gconf-app that ships with
> GConf sources ].

it's not immediately apparent that the prefs dialogs' changes are 
committed on focus-out or activate (pressing enter) in the entry 
widgets.  i kept wondering about that for a few minutes until i peeked 
at the source.  how about a label with an explanatory blurb?


> WARNING: This binding requires GConf >= 2.2.0 (which is used by GNOME 
> 2,
> and on my Debian SID).  I'm not very keen on requiring a previous
> version, since GNOME 2.4 is already out, and so is GConf 2.4.0, but if
> the internals are not changed that much, I could think about it.

i'm on redhat 8 with gnome 2.0 (and you'd better believe there's still 
a lot of those systems out there), which has gconf 1.2.1 (according to 
pkg-config's --modversion).  with a minor hack to the Makefile.PL, 
everything appears to work fine.  i presume this means the public API 
has been stable for a while.

other differences in API could be supported with #ifdefs like Gtk2 and 
Glib.

oh yeah, there appears to be a copy&paste bug in the %runtime_reqs, 
too...


diff -ru Gnome2-GConf-0.23/Makefile.PL Gnome2-GConf-0.23-mup/Makefile.PL
--- Gnome2-GConf-0.23/Makefile.PL       2003-09-18 18:52:12.000000000 -0400
+++ Gnome2-GConf-0.23-mup/Makefile.PL	2003-09-18 22:06:55.000000000 
-0400
@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@
        'perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig' => '0.1',
        'perl-Glib'               => '1.00rc1',
        'perl-Gtk2'               => '1.00rc1',
-       'GConf'                   => '2.2.0',
+       'GConf'                   => '1.2.1',
 );

 # minimum required version of dependancies we need to run
 our %runtime_reqs = (
-       'GnomePrint'    => undef,
+       'GnomeConf'     => undef,
 );

 # Writing a fake Makefile ensures that CPAN will pick up the correct


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