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

[José Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

Hi Joanie and all.
I just found out that it is now possible to have different keyboard 
layout for each APP.
Hehehe!

On 05/19/2014 12:53 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey all.
>
> As you may recall, a while back Orca's preferences and associated
> configuration began using Orca's settings manager (so user-settings.py
> became user-settings.conf). However, this change had not been made for
> Orca's app preferences and associated configuration. As of this evening,
> that change has been made.
>
> 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.
>
> This was, however, a non-trivial change. There are undoubtedly bugs.
> > From last cycle you should know the drill. <smiles> But as a reminder
> just in case: Yes, I do care about all bugs you find as you test. But I
> really, really, really care about regressions. Therefore, if you find a
> bug, please also include in your report whether or not the bug is a
> regression introduced by this change.
>
> What may jump out at you most immediately is the fact that your old *.py
> app-specific preferences are not loaded by Orca master. This does not
> constitute a regression. I've not yet made an importer to go from the
> old *.py to the json backend's *.conf. For those of you who find this
> unacceptable, master might not be right for you at the moment. Those of
> you who don't mind re-configuring your app-specific settings, testing is
> appreciated.
>
> The other thing you might notice is that the General page now shows up
> for app preferences. As a result, you can now customize things like the
> date and time format on an app-by-app basis. I still have work to do to
> get profiles properly configurable within the app preferences dialog, so
> for now the profile-related controls within the app preferences dialogs
> are disabled.
>
> Thanks in advance for your testing!
> --joanie
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{}S José Vilmar Estácio de Souza