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Re: desktopcouch

 

I'd also be nice if there was better documentation for creating quickly
templates, last time I checked it was all hidden in didrocks' blog from
when quickly was first released.

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:19 PM, 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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