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[Owas Lone <hello@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey everyone,

I really really think GSettings is better choice. We should promote
the default/preferred way in the templates.

As far as the sync feature is concerned, why don't we handle that in
the U1/OneConf API. May something where U1 is used to sync gsettings
keys and app developers would use that API to sync their app
configuration.

Then we could add helper methods or boilerplate code to the templates
to help with settings sync. Something like

    "quickly add u1_settings_sync"

and settings sync boilerplate is added and settings start synching
right away just like dialog and indicator add commands.

-- 
Owais Lone
hello@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.owaislone.org


On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Michael Terry
<michael.terry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
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