Re: [orca-list] Heads up: App preferences now use the settings manager's backend

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 01:53:01PM EST, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Having Orca's settings manager manage all settings in the same fashion
> means less code and fewer sad hacks. (Orca is 1500 lines of code lighter
> now, and a couple of bugs have been fixed in the process.) But more
> importantly, this change is a prerequisite step to managing settings via
> GSettings which is a prerequisite step to moving configuration over to
> the Control Centers of desktop environments.

Great work. Coincidentally, I was looking at Orca's settings code today, and noticed that the app specific 
settings were written out as a python script, and I was wondering whether there was a good reason for that. 
:) I too have had gsettings for orca, and abstracting preferences UI on my mind.

Luke