[Sugar-devel] Porting to GSettings and XDG directories

[Manuel Quiñones]

2012/12/15 Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> after we branch and the patches I already sent lands, I would like to
> port sugar to use GSettings and XDG home directories. Here is what I
> have in mind right now, after a quick initial investigation.
>
> * Port glucose to use GSettings.
> * Port browse and read to use GSettings.
> * Hopefully activity maintainers will port the rest of the activities?
> Should not be much work but a bit tricky.
>     * If they used their own keys, stuff will keep working as long as
> we keep GConf as a dependency. Though the system wide
> gsettings-data-convert configuration will need to be updated when they
> port.
>     * If they tried to get the sugar keys (like buddy color) instead
> of going through sugar.profile, they will get outdated settings until
> they port.
> * Port glucose to use g_get_user_* instead of env.get_profile_path
> * Remove env.get_profile_path. It should not have been used outside
> glucose (right??).
> * Remove support for multiple profiles. sugar-build is already
> providing it on the base of xdg directories and it's a developer only
> feature afaik.
> * Write a sugar-data-convert script, executed at startup, which moves
> the files/directories to the new paths and runs
> gsettings-data-convert.
>
> Suggestions welcome!

Looks like an awesome plan.  I hope your patches can be reviewed soon,
when the sugar branch for new development is made.  Thanks,

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