"Defaults" button in every settings screen

[Andrzej]

On 12/09/2011 03:44 PM, Nick Schermer wrote:
>
>> The link between the dialog box and the xfconf sub-tree isn't always that
>> obvious. For example if we wanted to change settings of a single launcher in
>> the panel, we'd first have to know its ID (which may change) and then
>> save/restore properties matching the pattern:
>>
>> /plugins/plugin-<ID>/*
>
> Plugin-id's never change.

My mistake, sorry. When I added new plugins to the panel they were 
occasionally getting IDs lower than the highest existing ID, so I 
assumed the IDs are reused.

> Per-module is better, where each module ships a file (or maintainer in
> the profile-manager) where settings are stored. For example the
> xfce4-panel xfconf config is useless without content of
> ~/.config/xfce4/panel and keyboard settings has properties in 2
> channels (some for a lot of other xfce4-*-settings plugins).
[...]
>> - What if there are cross-dependencies or conflicts? (some options depending
>> on the compositing being enabled etc.)
>
> The code should protect that, not the setting in a channel.

It feels like working around limitations of xfconf by pushing 
configuration management back to the applications.

I don't say it is bad solution (it may be the only practical one) but it 
just doesn't look like a nice design in my eyes.

Andrzej