On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 10:29 -0500, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: > > don't *ever* use GConf to store the window size. it's *not* a user > > preference, and the GConf can very well be not writable. > > > > use a file inside a directory like the user cache directory as > > established by the XDG base dir specification. > > Hmm. Could you expand on this (or point me to the docs that explain this > more fully)? What is gconf good for, then, exactly?
preferences. the size of the window is not an application preference. the sorting order of a list view is a preference; the preferred path for searching for images is a preference; even the default presence status for IM is a preference. the window size is something that can be deleted without losing any meaningful data. also: GConf can be set to be completely read-only (think kiosks or thin clients), which means you *have* to provide fallback code paths to handle the case gracefully. in short: use GConf for user preferences, not for storing random chunks of data. > More than one app stores window sizes in gconf... gThumb certainly does. and they are all doing the wrong thing. I'm guilty by association, by the way, because gnome-dictionary uses gconf -- and I should really fix it. ciao, Emmanuele. -- Emmanuele Bassi, W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.net B: http://log.emmanuelebassi.net _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
