Re: Enabling GConf-over-DBus in GNOME 3.2 jhbuild

[Ross Burton <ross burtonini com>]

On Wednesday, 20 July 2011 at 19:41, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Ross Burton <ross burtonini com (mailto:ross burtonini com)> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > So the DBus port of GConf landed recently and there haven't been any
> > totally serious problems reported so far... would anyone object if I
> > changed jhbuild to use --disable-orbit in the GNOME 3.2 suites?
> 
> The general principle I see here is that we want partial builds to
> work on at least the most recently released versions of widely-used[1]
> distros. So check whether they work in this configuration? In this
> case, that'd be new libgconf talking to system gconfd.

Actually we've had reported breakage from jhbuild's gconf-over-orbit trying to use Ubuntu Oneiric's gconf-over-dbus, so I suspect we're going to get some problems either way.

Not sure what the best solution here is to be honest.

Ross