gnome_config is deprecated, in favor of GKeyFile. Unfortunately, GKeyFile is a lower-level API than gnome_config, making you do things like figure out where to put the file yourself (and really, with key:value files, figuring out where to put it is the harder part).
-David On 8/11/06, Shaun McCance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 11:22 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > Heya, > > > > I've written up on GNOME Goal #3: > > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoalsSaveState > > > > Currently, a lot of applications will be using GConf to save state, like > > window sizes, whether or not a window is maximised on startup, etc. > > > > This is against GConf policy, as GConf might be read-only, or locked > > down, but this sort of information should still be saved run-to-run. > > > > I'm awaiting comments on this, before making it official. Vincent > > mentioned that it would be a good idea to get code to save state in a > > library, although there isn't that much code to be shared IMO. > > We have a very easy library for doing this: libgnome. The > gnome_config family of functions are easy to work with for > something this simple. > > http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/libgnome/libgnome-gnome-config.html > > It's what Yelp uses to store the width and height of its > window. See here: > > http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/yelp/src/yelp-window.c?rev=1.210&view=markup > > Search for "window_configure_cb". Search again. And now > a third time. Ah, there it is. And the code for getting > that information is in the window_init function. It's way > less code than using GKeyFile. > > And since we're on the subject, I consider it a fundamental > flaw in all of these approaches that we're storing window > positions and sizes without regard for what machine we're > running on. (Yes, Yelp has this flaw too.) If I'm running > multiple machines off the same NFS home directory, and one > of them has a smaller resolution, bad things will happen. > > -- > Shaun > > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
