davidedmundson added a comment.
FWIW, there's a lovely Qt-GConf wrapper in plasma-pa/gconfitem REPOSITORY R119 Plasma Desktop REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D11061 To: fujiwara, #plasma, hein, xuetianweng Cc: davidedmundson, plasma-devel, ZrenBot, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, mart