Re: Way to remove a GConf dir ?

[Alexandre Jousset <mid gtmp org>]

        Hello,

Emmanuele Bassi a écrit :
> The method is Gnome2::GConf::Client::remove_dir.
>
> But I actually don't think that those methods actually do what you think
> they actually do.
>
> Ehr...
>
> Okay, let's start again.  Gnome2::GConf::Client::unset does *not* delete
> a key from the GConf database: it merely puts it in an "unset" state -
> which will result in having the value fetched from the default value (if
> any) specified in the attached schema (if any).
>
> Gnome2::GConf::Client::remove_dir removes a GConf "directory" from the
> list of the watched directories - it does *not* remove the directory
> from the GConf database.

        I'm sorry, I should have said that I tried this before...

> The only way to actually delete a directory would be to use the
> Gnome2::GConf::Engine::remove_dir method - but you should never ever do
> this, under any circumstances, unless you really know what you're doing.
> And unless you say "klaatu barada nikto" while you're doing it,
> otherwise things could get really messy.
>
> [ Just looking at the code, anyway, it seems that no check is performed
> on the owner of the engine, so it could be possible to get away with it
> - but it's not guaranteed to work now or in the future.]

	I tried anyway to use the remove_dir from GConf::Engine but I get a 
message in the terminal saying "Échec: L'opération de suppression de 
répertoire n'est plus supportée, enlevez juste toutes les valeurs dans 
le répertoire" -> "Error: the directory delete operation is no more 
supported, just remove all values from the directory"... But I don't 
know and I don't find any way to do that... And as you say, unset don't 
remove them totally... I checked the C API, the GConf mailing list 
archives and googled but I find nothing... Any clue ? I tried 
$client->remove, $client->remove_key, $client->delete and 
$client->delete_key but none are recognized...

        Thanks Emmanuele !
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