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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: Gentoo Developers <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] GNOME migrating from GConf to GSettings; effects on Gentoo?
Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 02:29:21
Message-Id: 20130501022913.GB5582@waltdnes.org
1 I was going to file a bug at bugzilla, but this looks like it's going
2 to involve virtually every GNOME-related app, so playing whack-a-mole is
3 going to be painfull. It'll have to be tackled higher up, which is why
4 I'm posting here. I apologize if there is a more correct way of
5 reporting this. I'm not aware of it. Background...
6
7 GNOME is migrating from GConf to GSettings, as per...
8 https://developer.gnome.org/gio/2.26/ch26.html
9 https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/GSettingsMigration
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11 This is starting to impact some Gentoo users...
12
13 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327595
14 gnome-base/gnome-control-center-2.32.1-r1: proxy settings don't use
15 Gsettings
16
17 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=431972
18 icedtea-bin-7 should depend on gsettings-desktop-schemas
19
20 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363631
21 Un-disable gsettings and shm from gst-p-bad eclass
22
23 See also http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/271860 where
24 I got involved.
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26 As I said before, this looks like it'll hit a lot of GNOME-related
27 apps, and is going to take a co-ordinated effort of some sort.
28
29 --
30 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
31 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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Re: [gentoo-dev] GNOME migrating from GConf to GSettings; effects on Gentoo? Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@g.o>