Hi. I do not know what the best solution is, but upstream Pulseaudio developer Tanu recommends not using gconf at all:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57743#c2 However that would need extensions to Pulseaudio client API: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57743#c4 I am not sure of the current state on this, since this comment was in 2014. So I asked upstream about it. Another approach would be: pulseaudio-module-gconf: migration to a dconf PA backend https://bugs.debian.org/757909 Thanks, -- Martin