[Sugar-devel] From GConf to GSettings

[Daniel Narvaez]

On 26 December 2013 17:35, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 26 December 2013 17:30, Emil Dudev <emildudev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My changes to the makefiles only add gsettings support. GConf can
>> still be used and I doubt there will be any problems.
>>
>
> That's what I expect too but let's test if after migration gconf
> activities still works the same as before.
>
>
>> While I was working on this, the following article came to my
>> attention: https://developer.gnome.org/gio/2.26/ch26s07.html
>> From what I understand of the article, the transition can be made
>> without affecting any of the activities.
>>
>
> Unfortunately the article says the backend should not be used in
> production :/
>
> To summarize my proposal:
>
> * Move most settings to use GSettings
> * For the few settings which the activity are currently using, set them
> both in GSettings and GConf.
> * Deprecate GConf support so that activity authors will gradually migrate
> to GSettings.
>


Btw, this also seems to be the approach suggested in the migration guide

https://developer.gnome.org/gio/2.26/ch26.html

-- 
Daniel Narvaez
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