Re: [orca-list] Orca & GSettings

[Alejandro Leiva <aleiva emergya es>]

El 07/06/2010, a las 11:58, trev saunders gmail com escribió:

> Hi,
>
> no false.  While they aren't a "desktop" as a lot of people think of it awesome / ion / fluxbox are 
> configured through the same unix abstraction people have used for the past 30 years of text files.
> this would mean that a user would have to have gsettings installed to use / build orca right?  Unless you 
> somehow provide a --without-gsettings options to configure I am going to have a problem with this.
> basically the problem is text files have worked for many programs for atleast 35 years, so we can have 
> every expectation that they will continue to work perfectly well on any unix system with no dependancies.  
> On the other hand gnome itself has existed for less than 20 I don't know the exact number, and is already 
> changing the way it does things (gconf -> gsettings) so as I see it expecting it to change again is very 
> reasonable.  Also we can put whatever we want into a file a api restricts what we can do.  Why do we want 
> to use a api that restricts us and will change when we can use something that will work fine and not change?
>
> Trev


Hi Trev,

        Only one thought. If text plain files works for you is then an universal solution to any Orca's user?

        I don't think so. 

        With our planned settings system you can implement a backend 
based on text files if you want. Only for your old-school needs ;)

Cheers,
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Alejandro Leiva