Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GSettings-to-GConf problem

[Walter Dnes]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:01:14PM -0700, Grant wrote
> >> > shotwell keeps crashing when I import photos with "Copy Photos" as
> >> > opposed to "Import in Place".  I've been over this thoroughly with the
> >> > shotwell list and they've come to these conclusions:
> >> >
> >> > "There may be something about the configuration mapper on your machine
> >> > that is just broken."
> >> >
> >> > "the problem occurred deep inside of the GSettings-to-GConf mapper
> >> > (gconfsettingsbackend)"
> >> >
> >> > "ask the Gentoo packagers why they're using a GSettings-to-GConf
> >> > mapper, because GSettings is designed as an evolution over GConf and
> >> > should have no relation to it whatsoever"
> >> >
> >> > Can anyone shed any light on any of this?  Should I file a Gentoo bug?
> >> >
> >> > - Grant
> >
> >   I don't know if this is related or not, but GNOME seems to be in the
> > middle of migrating away from Gconf to Gsettings.  In plain English,
> > Gconf is being deprecated, and may not be supported in your case.
>
> That's exactly the problem.  Gentoo seems to be using a
> GSettings-to-GConf mapper when they should be using GSettings
> directly.  Does anyone know what is happening in this area of Gentoo?

  I was going to file a bug for GNUMERIC.  But I decided to send an
email to the Gentoo dev list.  There are already a similar bugs for
other applications...

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327595
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327595
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363631

...and it looks like it'll affect virtually every GNOME-related app.
This is going to have to be handled at a higher level than whack-a-mole
bug reports.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications