ext Robin Burchell <[email protected]> writes:

> No, at least, I very much doubt it. libgq seems to be unmaintained -
> or at least, nobody seems interested in taking my patches to it,
> despite repeated attempts to get somebody to have a look (see
> http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2010-August/027366.html
> for details on that). I also don't think it is packaged for MeeGo.

I originally wrote (what is now) MGConfItem to plug a hole in the
Harmattan architecture: to allow Qt-ish code to access GConf in a more
natural fashion.  Later I moved it out into its own library since people
wanted to use it without the rest of libmeegotouch.

The Right Thing would have been (IMO) to get behind dconf, and write the
Qt-equivalent of GSettings for Harmattan.  This didn't happen and libgq
just doesn't die.  There is a copy of it somewhere in Qt Mobility as
well.

So, what now?

I propose that we find a owner for libgq, and he/she then kills off its
copies in libmeegotouch and Qt Mobility and takes patches, etc.  He/she
might also want to follow the 'vision' of libgq and provide more
wrappers, such as for GIO.

(I don't think I am officially involved in this, so I can't officially
offer anything in the way of maintenance myself.  I tried, but I just
don't have the discipline, obviously.  Sorry about that. :-/ )
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