Re: [orca-list] Orca & GSettings

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

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One big thing I found rather disturbing about gconf in general is the
lack of documentation on how to use it.  At least I don't know where
to find it if it indeed exists.  I learned about the gconf variables
concerning a11y for the gdm login purely by word of mouth.  I
personally find plain old text files the best way to configure
things.  I don't know why all the rage for gconf, registries
(microsoft), gsettings, etc.  In fact, today is the first time I ever
heard of gsettings.  How easy is it to verify values in gsettings? I
think with gconf you can use some gconf2 commands or something.  I
feel like the user may lose much control of his/her environment with
these things.  But if that is the direction to go, I guess we haven't
much choice, do we.

On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 02:50:02PM +0200, Javier HernÃndez wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm Javier HernÃndez and i'm working in Orca for the Guadalinfo
> Accesible Project (http://live.gnome.org/Guadalinfo_accesible).
>
> At the moment, my work consists on change Orca's own config to
> something more in line with the gnome desktop way, like gconf or
> gsettings.
>
> Our first intention was move Orca's config to gsettings, but
> gsettings isn't released yet and also there's not a python
> implementation to working with, so finally we decided to move it to
> gconf.
>
> Once we get Orca's working with gconf, it will be more easy move to
> gsettings.
>
> My first step was obtain config's keys from actual user-settings.py,
> getting possible and/or default values for each key and its types.
>
> The next step is to generate a gconf schema for Orca and start to
> work with it, but i need to know if I have to add/remove some other
> configuration elements, so if anyone is interested in contribute
> with this i will be grateful.
>
> Actually, there is an open bug to track this purpose (
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619398).
>
>
> Cheers!
>
> -- 
> Javier HernÃndez<javiube gmail com>

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