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

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I compiled gdm to start with console 12, I have not tried it yet -- I
hope it does work, my console 1 is certainly not usable by gdm.

Vojtěch Polášek <krecoun gmail com> wrote:

> Hi Joanie,
> nice work, thank you for your effort.
> I have a question; recently GDM changed the virtual console, which it
> uses for display to console 1. For some reason, Orca still thought that
> it should display braille on virtual console 7. I had to edit
> settings.py manually to change it.
> Now when settings.py is gone.... how is this configuration handled?
> Thanks,
> Vojta
> Dne 19.5.2014 05:53, Joanmarie Diggs napsal(a):
> > 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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