xfconf GSettings backend

[Stephan Haller]

Hi Nick,
Hi Peter,

thanks for feedback. Sorry, I didn't noticed that the roadmap contained 
a step to drop xfconf and use dconf instead although I understand the 
pros by this migration. It's also a sad step because I like xfconf ;) 
But at least I had a nice learning experience.

Regards,
Stephan

Am 03.03.2015 13:26, schrieb Peter de Ridder:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Nick Schermer <nick at xfce.org> wrote:
>> Technically [but a bitch for users] is to migrate xfconf data -> dconf
>> and use the normal gsettings backend and drop xfconf.
>> 
>> That said, the golden rule it to not break 2 things at the same time,
>> so we might want to sit with xfconf during the gtk3 port. So the
>> question is whether is useful to use gsettings to store settings in
>> xfconf if we have to migrate anyway, some day...
>> 
>> Nick
> 
> As nick said there is no real need for a xfconf backend, we can just 
> use dconf.
> 
> Also, xfconf can do some things that gsettings can't and visa versa.
> These should first be tackled to be able to make the switch.
> Maning the most important one: gsettings can't have settings out side
> of the gschema.
> This is currently used for mouse and touchpad settings. The user can
> even add extra settings where xfce4-mouse-settings doesn't know about.
> 
> Regards,
> Peter
> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Stephan Haller <nomad at froevel.de> 
>> wrote:
>>> Hi @all,
>>> 
>>> first of all I want to congratulate you for the Xfce 4.12 release and 
>>> to
>>> thank you for all your hard work to make this release happen. It's
>>> great :)
>>> 
>>> I spent the last hours of my coding time on another very small 
>>> project
>>> of mine because I needed a break of xfdashboard to revise the current
>>> work I've done (started with multi-monitor support) and the roadmap.
>>> This small project is called - I guess you know it already - xfconf
>>> GSettings backend.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> So far the project's progress is that it passes all tests of Glib 
>>> 2.40
>>> as defined at /gio/tests/gsettings.c in the sources and all stored
>>> values are editable with xfconf's graphical editor
>>> xfce4-settings-editor. But this backend is not really smart to get it
>>> editable in the editor. It tries to find suitable GValue type for 
>>> basic
>>> GVariant types, e.g. booleans, integers, strings etc. and stores them 
>>> in
>>> xfconf with their native type. All other types like containers (e.g.
>>> arrays) or more complex type (using maybe type etc.) are converted to
>>> their GVariant's parsable string representation and then stored as
>>> strings in xfconf. So they are still editable but you have to use the
>>> GVariant textual value. Short said: They are serialized.
>>> 
>>> This is for me just a proof-of-concept so the code is not well
>>> structured yet and also error handling have to be improved. Also the
>>> backend missed two functions (subscribe and unsubscribe) but I don't
>>> know what they are used for. The documentation is not very complete
>>> about the virtual function of a GSettings backend. But maybe it is 
>>> still
>>> worth a look and try. The Git repository is at
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/gmc-holle/xfconf-gsettings-backend
>>> 
>>> Please let me know what you think about it and if it is ok for 
>>> further
>>> development or if it is better to drop it ;)
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Stephan
>>> 
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