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[Michael Terry <michael.terry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello!  Thanks for all those that attended the UDS session today, in 
person and remotely.

After the talk, I dusted off my gtk3 branch and decided that I want to 
replace our desktopcouch preference system with gsettings.

1) desktopcouch can't be used with GTK3 right now.
  -> PyGI requires GTK3 and GTK3 requires PyGI.  So they have to be 
done in parallel.
  -> You can't mix GTK3 with GTK2 and you can't mix PyGI with 
PyGObject/PyGtk.
  -> The desktopcouch module uses PyGObject.
  -> Porting desktopcouch is a bit of an issue because the project has 
tools that (A) use PyGtk and (B) depend on Twisted's gtk2reactor.  A 
gtk3reactor does not exist yet (there is a patch in their tracker that 
has been untouched for over 7 months).

2) The Ubuntu project recommends elsewhere that gsettings is the One Way 
to Set Preferences.

3) During the session, we decided to drop marginal features from the 
project_roots for the LTS.  The synchronization from desktopcouch 
doesn't seem like a super important use case.

Thoughts?
-mt