[Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar] Rework how we select the Xcursor theme

[Daniel Narvaez]

On 12 December 2012 00:11, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11 December 2012 07:51, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
>> This might be a good idea, but it would also mean that Sugar and
>> activities share no settings at all with GNOME in cases where that
>> might be desirable. I can't immediately think of any pitfalls, but
>> this does needs some extra thought and testing to see if this is
>> really what we want and if it will cause headaches for the OLPC
>> distribution.
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> my feeling is what you certainly don't want is to share all of the
> settings, without being able to choose or even know about it. There
> might be cases where you want to share (though honestly I can't think
> of any right now) but if they arise it should be possible to deal with
> those by syncing them manually anyway.

After thinking about it a bit more and discussing with Gonzalo in irc,
I think it's entirely a downstream decision how to deal with config
sharing.

It make sense for the cursor theme to be a preference, and we might
have other similar cases. Distributions that ships both GNOME and
Sugar can either

* Use a shared config. Blacklist some of the preferences, save and
restore them when switching desktop.
* Use separate configs. Whitelist some of the preferences, copy them
between the configs when switching desktop.

The only alternative I can think of is to always share, which doesn't
seem to be flexible enough (the cursor preference being an example of
this).