Re: [Tracker] Tracker GConf should use DBus session bus

[Aleksander Morgado <aleksander lanedo com>]

> > > > > I think we made it this way because the key that we needed on
> > > > > Harmattan
> > > > > was in the system bus.
> > > > >
> > > > > So if we would change it we should probably add an #ifdef for
> > > > > harmattan
> > > > > so that on this platform it remains the way it is now.
> > > >
> > > > The whole file is exclusively for Meego. On other systems, locale
> > > > settings are not stored in GConf and we use the environment variables.
> > > I am developing on a Meego derived platform, although not Harmattan.
> >
> > On Harmattan it was definitely correct to use the system bus. If you can
> > verify that upstream Meego does not use the system bus for GConf, I
> > think we should simply change it given that Harmattan will never use
> > tracker master.
>
> Thanks JÃrg, Philip,
>
> While we could change master here, I actually wonder where we're using
> this Harmattan code?
>
> Is it on MeeGo?
> Is it for general purpose (i.e. someone wants to use gconf with dbus)?

The setup would affect anyone using the MeeGo Touch Framework, see:
http://apidocs.meego.com/1.0/mtf/i18n.html#localesystem

> Depending on these answers, we can either:
>
> a) fix in master and rename as Philip suggests
> b) create a new .c file for that target
>
> I am fine with either as long as we don't disrupt anyone using Tracker
> on existing platforms. Richard, patches/branches welcome ;)

There's no upstream MeeGo anymore, and I don't believe Tizen cares about
Tracker, so I wouldn't spend one minute trying to handle those cases.

-- 
Aleksander