Re: [orca-list] suggestion: provide error checking in orca's config files

[Luke Yelavich <luke yelavich canonical com>]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 08:49:22PM AEST, kendell clark wrote:
> orca  hi all
> This has been hovering on the edge of my mind for a while, but has
> become important since I've been testing chrys's progress bar support in
> orca. If you load an orca config file which contains values orca doesn't
> recognize it simply crashes silently, or won't allow you to open the
> preferences dialog to change values.

When you say values that Orca doesn't understand, do you mean something
along the lines of using a string instead of a float or integer? If so,
GSettings can certainly help with this somewhat, as GSettings enforces
correct data types when setting values.

Luke