On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 17:39 +0100, Alberto Ruiz wrote: > 2009/10/14 Xavier Claessens <[email protected]>: > > Le lundi 12 octobre 2009 à 11:27 -0400, Ryan Lortie a écrit : > >> I'd like to propose the inclusion of dconf for GNOME 2.30 in the desktop > >> release set. > > > > This is great news! I'm all in favor of dconf. Do you have plans to move > > to GNOME plateforme? IMO that really should replace gconf for GNOME3, > > this should be part of the "cleanup plateform" goal IMO. > > > > However I have a few questions: > > > > - How do we migrate user settings from gconf to dconf? If it is not > > done on GSettings/dconf level, that means that all applications will > > still have to link on libgconf to read old values and save them on new > > dconf keys at startup, and set a flag "settings converted" so that > > conversion is ran only once. > > Is there a need to convert user settings? I mean, we're talking about > GNOME 3.0 here, most sensible data is stored via > evolution-data-server, tracker, or other custom storage so the only > difference would be appearance. I don't think that migration is an > issue. > e-d-s stores the data in GConf, so it needs to be migrated indeed. Also, even though the desktop-wide settings might be obsoleted (/desktop/GNOME, for instance), apps still need their /apps/$app configuration tree to be migrated, since they would probably keep using the same conf entries
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