Re: gconf key for the equivalent of F7?

2009-10-22 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 14:48 -0400, Willie Walker wrote: > Thanks Shaun! > > > Epiphany and Evolution also both respond to F7 to enable > > caret navigation. (And, by the way, though Yelp stores > > this in GConf, it also responds to F7.) We're seeing > > more and more applications use an HTML re

Re: Module proposal: dconf [migration from gconf]

2009-10-22 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 19:27 +0100, Iain wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > > For applications that need to do weird conversions where we can't extend > > the tool to do this in a generic fashion we could just ship a special > > tool with the application that li

Re: gconf key for the equivalent of F7?

2009-10-22 Thread Willie Walker
Thanks Shaun! Epiphany and Evolution also both respond to F7 to enable caret navigation. (And, by the way, though Yelp stores this in GConf, it also responds to F7.) We're seeing more and more applications use an HTML renderer for core parts of their interfaces, such as Gwibber, and Empathy wi

Re: Module proposal: dconf [migration from gconf]

2009-10-22 Thread Iain
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Alexander Larsson wrote: > For applications that need to do weird conversions where we can't extend > the tool to do this in a generic fashion we could just ship a special > tool with the application that links to gconf so that the normal app > doesn't have to lin

Re: Module proposal: dconf [migration from gconf]

2009-10-22 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 16:38 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 14:23 +0100, Sam Thursfield wrote: > > > We want to both be able to read all keys as per the current user, and > > > determine whether a gconf key really has been set or if it has inherited > > > the default value

Re: gconf key for the equivalent of F7?

2009-10-22 Thread Xan Lopez
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Shaun McCance wrote: > Well, right.  That's why I mentioned XSettings, which can > then be accessed with the GtkSettings API.  In fact, even > after GSettings/dconf, I think it would make sense to have > an XSetting, since it can be picked up by other toolkits > as

Re: gconf key for the equivalent of F7?

2009-10-22 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 19:16 +0300, Xan Lopez wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Shaun McCance wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 09:25 -0400, Willie Walker wrote: > >> Hi All: > >> > >> There is a convention of having the user press F7 to enable caret > >> browsing. For example, when running

Re: gconf key for the equivalent of F7?

2009-10-22 Thread Xan Lopez
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 09:25 -0400, Willie Walker wrote: >> Hi All: >> >> There is a convention of having the user press F7 to enable caret >> browsing.  For example, when running Firefox, one can press F7 to >> enable the caret in the documen

Re: gconf key for the equivalent of F7?

2009-10-22 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 09:25 -0400, Willie Walker wrote: > Hi All: > > There is a convention of having the user press F7 to enable caret > browsing. For example, when running Firefox, one can press F7 to > enable the caret in the document content and you can then arrow around > the content and

Re: Module proposal: dconf

2009-10-22 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Ross Burton wrote: > > > Not providing a migration path will probably delay adoption of > dconf/gsettings into Debian because Debian tries it's hardest to > preserve user configuration, even during an update.  There are long and > scary scripts which can migrate gn

Re: Module proposal: dconf [migration from gconf]

2009-10-22 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 14:23 +0100, Sam Thursfield wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 17:29 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > >> Le mardi 13 octobre 2009 à 13:12 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit : > >> > Ryan is a bit sad to not get feedback on hi

gconf key for the equivalent of F7?

2009-10-22 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: There is a convention of having the user press F7 to enable caret browsing. For example, when running Firefox, one can press F7 to enable the caret in the document content and you can then arrow around the content and select/copy text. yelp has something similar, which I believe is

Re: Module proposal: dconf [migration from gconf]

2009-10-22 Thread Sam Thursfield
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Alexander Larsson wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 17:29 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Le mardi 13 octobre 2009 à 13:12 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit : >> > Ryan is a bit sad to not get feedback on his proposal, so a bit more >> > seriously: I think what we probabl

Re: Module proposal: dconf [migration from gconf]

2009-10-22 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 17:29 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 13 octobre 2009 à 13:12 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit : > > Ryan is a bit sad to not get feedback on his proposal, so a bit more > > seriously: I think what we probably need is a migration plan. Should we > > move all the code fro