On Mon, 2016-12-12 at 11:08 +0100, cedlemo wrote: > in which it is said to modify the gschema xml files in /usr/share > and > recompile them. I am reluctant to modify the main configuration > files. > Is there another way to do this?
Hi, The lifehacker article you found is really bad, it totally missed the point of having a settings framework. No, you don't have to edit a data file owned by your package manager and then recompile your settings schemas to change the default value of a setting in order to change that setting. :) The Nixpanic article is correct. First, he shows how to modify the setting for yourself. I would have added an example argument to his 'gsettings set' command, though, otherwise it's not clear that there is supposed to be one more argument there. For example: $ gsettings set org.gnome.Epiphany keyword-search-url "https://www.qwant.com/?q=%s&t=all"; That's all that's needed to change the setting. You can also use the GUI tool dconf-editor to do that if you prefer. It's also possible to change the search engine from within Epiphany itself, but it requires some black magic: you just add a bookmark with %s in the address, then it should show up in the search engine combo box in the preferences dialog. But of course there's no way anybody could ever know about that; we need a way better user interface for that. If you want to change the setting for all users on your computer, then you should write a .gschema.override file and then recompile schemas as shown by Nixpanic. That's fine, though; you're not editing any data files owned by the package manager. If you're doing this, it's expected that you're a system administrator and packaging your override file in an RPM or Debian package, to avoid unpackaged files under /usr/share. > (gconf-editor, or user configuration > files in ~/.config/ or in ~/.locale/share) FYI: GNOME stopped using gconf about five years ago, we use gsettings and dconf now. Hope that helps, Michael _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
