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[Bug 1202924]

 

Discussed on the ESC today, decided we should drop gconf integration, something more useful might or might not come along at some point:
>* Killing LibreOffice gconf integration (Bjoern)
>    + gconf is obsoleted by gsetting
>    + on most distros the settings in gconf will be outdated/unused
>    + keeping this around as will likely just cause confusion as people will find subtile different settings without knowing why/from where
>        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41678
>    + used to be used for lockdown and some prop. tools integrated (Michael)
>    + RH not using it (Caolan)
>        + Stephan working on a dconf version instead.

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Title:
  ensure no gconf deps for LibreOffice 5.1/x-series

Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite:
  Fix Released
Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  libreoffice-core and libreoffice-gnome are two of the last few
  packages in the default Ubuntu and Ubuntu GNOME installs with a
  dependency on gconf.

  I think some of the code that uses gconf is wrong as neither GNOME nor
  Unity set values any more there for things like default mail handler,
  font and proxy settings, and lockdown settings.

  http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/shell/source/backends/gconfbe/gconfaccess.cxx

  Even though GTK3 provides an interface to access gsettings directly
  through GTK, it's still possible to call out to gsettings manually via
  the command line interface.

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