gconf or not gconf ?

[Jan Lübbe]

I'm CCing Ryan Lortie (developer of dconf). For Ryan:
Openmoko is currently looking for a framework-wide configuration
server/api. Do you think we should use dconf (instead of gconf-dbus or
something new)?

On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 16:36 +0800, Guillaume Chereau wrote:
> On the other hand, gconf doesn't have a dbus interface, which is quite
> annoying when all the other freesmartphone services do. There is a
> project called gconf-dbus
> (http://developer.imendio.com/projects/misc/gconf-dbus) but as far as I
> understand, it doesn't provide a d-bus api, but just internally uses
> d-bus instead of CORBA to communicate with the gconf daemon.

Here's a thread that seems relevant:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gconf-list/2007-September/msg00000.html

In summary:
* GConf currently uses ORBit2 and seems to be deprecated
* There is a port to D-Bus (which you mentioned above)
* Current development is focused on dconf (http://live.gnome.org/dconf)

> I am not used to gconf, so I can't decide if it is a good thing or not.
> 
> So what would you like to have :
> a) just gconf ?
> b) a dbus interface to gconf ? (that may be a little overkill, the flow
> would be like this : app -> dbus daemon -> dbus2gconf -> gconf)
> c) an other conf manager ?
> d) something totally new ?

I've had short look at dconf and i seems like something we could use.

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