[meego-packaging] 4956: Changes to Trunk:Testing/dconf

[Rob Bradford]

On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 07:28 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On 6/28/2010 7:26 AM, Rob Bradford wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 06:53 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >    
> >> On 6/28/2010 3:49 AM, Zhang Qiang wrote:
> >>      
> >>> Hi,
> >>> I have made the following changes to dconf in project Trunk:Testing. Please review and accept ASAP.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>        
> >>
> >> This cannot go in yet;
> >>
> >> we have not made the decision to switch from gconf to dconf yet
> >>      
> > Please resubmit to Trunk:Netbook then. We need this for Empathy and
> > gnome-control-center (at least.)
> >    
> 
> sorry, not even there yet.
> 

We're working with the Empathy guys to make UI improvements to enable
our 1.1 Netbook features, obviously that's all happening upstream.
They've migrated their git master over to dconf + GSettings a couple of
weeks ago. So our UI improvements are going to end up gated on that.

Similarly Thomas is working upstream on the gnome-control-center shell
which is switching to GSettings and GTK3. Once again this to enable
Netbook 1.1 features. 

> we're still waiting for/working on a transition plan for this

Switching some components to the variants using dconf does not mandate
the removal of gconf.

> 
> btw there needs to be a conversation about a bunch of these gnome 
> components... do we really want to move them to the 3.0 stack on our 
> schedule?

Well, yeh, obviously. We don't have to transition all our components,
these libraries are designed to be parallel installable with other
versions.

> I'm more and more hesitant to do that this time; I'd almost say to let 
> Fedora test 3.0 first, we can go to 3.0 in the 1.2 release...
> 

I'd like to see us the lead the way here as we have done with other new
technologies.

Cheerio,

Rob