I know dconf can be used on the same system as GConf. We'd love to use
dconf solely, and even though 98% of all distributions ship with it now,
there is a requirement on the app to support the 2% that still use GConf
only.


On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpie...@mecheye.net>wrote:

> dconf does not conflict with GConf, and is used by KDE as well. It should
> be available on most distributions.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Philip Wernersbach <
> philip.wernersb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We want to be able to support distributions that use gconf and not dconf.
>> For instance, distributions that use the GNOME 2 desktop, but have GTK+3
>> libraries available.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Jasper St. Pierre 
>> <jstpie...@mecheye.net>wrote:
>>
>>> Why do you want to support both GSettings and GConf?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Philip Wernersbach <
>>> philip.wernersb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I have a GTK+ app that has options for using GSettings and GConf. The
>>>> settings backend that is used must be set at compile time. I'd like to make
>>>> this a runtime decision, e.g. the app automatically tries the GSettings
>>>> backend, and if that doesn't work it will use the GConf backend. How can I
>>>> do this? I browsed the API documentation, and I didn't find any API's for
>>>> querying whether the system supports GSettings and GConf. It seems like
>>>> GLib just assumes that the functionality is there, whether it is actually
>>>> present on the system or not.
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> Philip Wernersbach
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> gtk-list mailing list
>>>> gtk-list@gnome.org
>>>> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>   Jasper
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
>   Jasper
>
_______________________________________________
gtk-list mailing list
gtk-list@gnome.org
https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list

Reply via email to