gconf or not gconf ?

[John Lee]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 04:36:50PM +0800, Guillaume Chereau wrote:
> Hello,
> this thread has more its place on the freesmartphone mailing list, but I
> would like to get advices from the people on this list as well:
> 
> We need a system to allow applications to share configuration data.
> For example, I want to be able to set a global volume level somewhere,
> and any application can then modify this value, or be notified when the
> value is being modified.
> Gnome gconf does exactly that.
> 
> 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.

FYI: we're already using this in the ordinary OM image, and you can
set gconf by dbus with it.

> 
> 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 ?
> 
> cheers,
> - charlie