On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 11:46:56PM +0300, Adrian Perez de Castro wrote: > > Interestingly, epiphany can read dconf settings, but not write... > > Writes to configuration are done through D-Bus to avoid race conditions which > may arise when more than a process is trying to write the same setting: this > ensures that concurrent access is never done because requests coming from the > bud are handled serially. Also, D-Bus is used to notify of settings updates, > so it just fits well that all writes go through a single place. > > FWIW, reading is done directly by each process because fetching settings is > a much more common operation, often done repeatedly, and in that case it makes > sense to avoid a roundtrip through D-Bus.
Ah, OK. That makes sense. Thanks for explaining it so well! Cheers, L. -- Leonid Isaev _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
