[Sugar-devel] From GConf to GSettings

[Walter Bender]

FWIW, some of the webservices also use gconf. Not sure the best path
forward there.

-walter

On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
>> It seems these can be split in
>>
>> 1 Sugar settings. /desktop/sugar/...
>> 2 Activity setting. /apps/...
>>
>> For the all keys in group 1, I think we to keep setting them for a while
>> both in gconf and in gsettings. They are API and just breaking it would be
>> bad. We should deprecate them now and remove them later. I think Gonzalo
>> suggestion to have python methods to access the most common might be a good
>> idea, but IMO it's not sufficient and not necessary for the plain port
>> (other GCI task?).
>
>
> Note than for nick_name and color we already have api in the toolkit.
> We should recommend to activity developers use the api instead of read the
> gconf value.
> If there are cases in sugar reading the gconf value, should use profile too.
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/blob/master/src/sugar3/profile.py#L201
>
> Gonzalo
>
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