Re: Gnome2::GConf beta

[Emmanuele Bassi <bassi-e libero it>]

* muppet <scott asofyet org>:

> > [ 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?

As I said, it's a pretty much a 1:1 porting from the C source, with some
perlism in it (I've remove the unneeded subs in favour of anonymous subs
inside signal_connect and notify_add).  I've also forgot to connect the
"focus_out" signal... I could write a more extensive example, showing
more functionalities, and with a more sphisticated UI, but it'll need
some time to write and test.

> > 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.

That's what I wanted to know...

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

I could handle future API changes, but for earlier versions of GConf,
someone with those version should notify me...

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

I've changed that a 1 o'clock in the morning... :-)

> 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

Applied, version 0.24 on its way...

Regards,
 Emmanuele.

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