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Writable mandatory key

2009-12-02T02:19:50Z

Hello,

I'm currently developping an applet for gnome and I wanted to have some settings that only root could change.

In my rpm install spec a wrote :

export GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE="xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory"
/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule /etc/gconf/schemas/nta-mandatory.schemas > /dev/null

The schema file is the following :
<gconfschemafile>
<schemalist>
<schema>
<key>
/schemas/apps/network_toolbox/allow_firewall_change
</key>
<applyto>/apps/network_toolbox/allow_firewall_change</applyto>
<owner>nta</owner>
<type>bool</type>
<default>false</default>
<locale name="C">
<short/>
<long/>
</locale>
</schema>
</schemalist>
</gconfschemafile>

After I installed my package I obtained the following %gconf.xml file in the /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory/apps/network-toolbox directory :

<gconf>
<entry name="allow_firewall_change" mtime="1259747546" schema="/schemas/apps/network_toolbox/allow_firewall_change" type="bool" value="false">
</entry>
</gconf>

When I checked for bugs, I tried to modify the key using the gconf-editor (when logged as a user). The selection of the key in the editor prints that it is a read only key but when I try and modify the key, it works and then the key is no longer in a read-only mode.
Then I tried to check the key when being root, the key was unchanged and marked read only but when trying to change the key it was no longer in read only mode.
So I looked again at the user version of the gconf-editor and the key was still modified.

I thought that being a mandatory key made it readonly for the user and that any change of the key as a user did not work (still it work for my applet...).

I would like to know if this is a normal behavior, if I did something wrong or if there is a known problem with the gconf-editor program?

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GConf-2.28.0: gconf-defaults.c:34:18: error: glib.h: No such file or directory

2009-11-30T08:42:16Z

I'm trying to compile GConf-2.28.0 but I get the following error when I
execute './configure --prefix=/usr && make':
gconf-defaults.c:34:18: error: glib.h: No such file or directory

The glib.h file is in /usr/include/glib-2.0. As per the glib-2.21.1
installation instructions (found at the begging of INSTALL) I deleted
the glib.h and the gmodule.h files from /usr/include.

Under these circumstances how am I supposed to build GConf?

Angel Tsankov

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authentication

2009-11-09T23:20:00Z

hi My daughter has misplaced and cannot remember the password for the
authentication aspect. We wanted to upgrade ubuntu and also install
Skype but without this authentication password we are stumped. how can
we find/cancel/reset this problem. Unfortuneatley i sent you an email
from her machine and she cannot find the email password. Stop laughing
as i am a bit more organised than that.
sincerely
barry (dad)

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authentication

2009-11-09T22:31:07Z

Hi

My daughter has misplaced her authentication password or has forgotten
it or both. Anyway we tried to load some software (Skype) onto her
computer and without the authentication we could not do it. is there any
way one can find out what it is or cancel and generate a new one.
Yours sincerel
barry (dad)

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machine inaccessible after kill gconf-2

2009-10-11T07:16:42Z

I now know that I should not kill gconf-2. But I did it when I logged
in my linux machine as a regular user. After I killed all gconf-2
process with killall, I can not access my machine any more (by ssh).
Since my machine is a remote machine, I'm not sure why the machine is
not responding. Could killing gconf-2 make a machine freeze or down?
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Re: Background Doesn't Change via cron(8)

2009-10-06T11:48:40Z

On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 11:53 -0400, Shawn H Corey wrote:

> I have abandoned using cron(8). Instead, I have written my own daemon
> and since it is started from a terminal, it seems to work fine. This is
> a stop-gap kludge but, hopefully, when 9.10 comes out, this problem will
> be fixed. :)

I wouldn't bet on it, the problem is marked as "won't fix" and is really
a problem of unforeseen consequences of design choices, it's not a bug
because it's really intended to work like that.

I'm in favour of ripping out gconf in favour of a nice XDG config
library. But I'm not that invested in gconf and gnome devs are.

Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Re: Background Doesn't Change via cron(8)

2009-10-06T08:53:53Z

Ghee Teo wrote:

> - pkill gconfd-2
>
>
> Pretty nasty hacks, since that pkill gconfd-2 is trying to ask all
> running user's gconfd-2 to stop and will be restarted when its service
> is required.

Good idea; too bad it doesn't work. What gconfd-2 appears to do is that
when it restarts, it thinks there should be another image in the list of
background images. It then changes that image, not the one displayed.

I have abandoned using cron(8). Instead, I have written my own daemon
and since it is started from a terminal, it seems to work fine. This is
a stop-gap kludge but, hopefully, when 9.10 comes out, this problem will
be fixed. :)

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Re: Background Doesn't Change via cron(8)

2009-10-05T07:40:27Z

On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:10:18 +0100, Ghee Teo wrote

> Shawn H Corey wrote:
> > Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 10:06 -0400, Shawn H Corey wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> * It changes ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/background/%gconf.xml
> >>>
> >> oh, god. why are you doing this?
> >>
> >> use gconftool to change the gconf database.
> >>
> >>
> >>> Apparently, gconfd-2 is not getting informed of the change. Its cache
> >>> still has the old values. How do I fix this?
> >>>
> >> by using the right tool for the job.
> >>
> >> ciao,
> >> Emmanuele.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > You mean like this?
> >
> > gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename
> > $WALLPAPERS/${ALIST[$number]}
> >
> > I am; doesn't work with cron(8).
> >
> There is some problem with this approach:
> - the command only changes the gconf value for the cron user (not any of
> the user on the system)
> - if you are changing
>
> ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/background/%gconf.xml

Here I think the correct tool is to have your cron job just change what a symbolic link
is pointing to instead of changing a gconf setting.

Use the *nix tools do the things the *nix way.

Gconf comes from a completely different mindset of a single user system. Thus if you
are going to use cron to do things directly with it you would have to either set it up
for that user with "crontab -u username cronfile.with.my.stuff.in.it" or explicitly run
as the correct user in /etc/crontab but assume your script won't have your environment.
That means putting all the variables and full paths that you'll need in your script.
On the first run you might want to make it echo all the variables to a file

>
> directly, that doesn't get pick up until gconfd-2 is restarted since
> gconfd-2 is monitoring memory data not persistent data when it is running.

>
> If you want to change the desktop back ground value completely using
> cron tab, this may work:
>
> - gconftool-2 --direct --config-source \
>
> xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type dtring --set \
>
> /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename <filename>
>
> - pkill gconfd-2
>
> Pretty nasty hacks, since that pkill gconfd-2 is trying to ask all
> running user's gconfd-2 to stop and will be restarted when its service
> is required.
>
> -Ghee
> >
> >
>
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Re: Background Doesn't Change via cron(8)

2009-10-05T03:09:41Z

Shawn H Corey wrote:

> Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 10:06 -0400, Shawn H Corey wrote:
>>
>>
>>> * It changes ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/background/%gconf.xml
>>>
>> oh, god. why are you doing this?
>>
>> use gconftool to change the gconf database.
>>
>>
>>> Apparently, gconfd-2 is not getting informed of the change. Its cache
>>> still has the old values. How do I fix this?
>>>
>> by using the right tool for the job.
>>
>> ciao,
>> Emmanuele.
>>
>>
>
> You mean like this?
>
> gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename
> $WALLPAPERS/${ALIST[$number]}
>
> I am; doesn't work with cron(8).
>

There is some problem with this approach:
- the command only changes the gconf value for the cron user (not any of
the user on the system)
- if you are changing

~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/background/%gconf.xml

directly, that doesn't get pick up until gconfd-2 is restarted since
gconfd-2 is monitoring memory data not persistent data when it is running.

If you want to change the desktop back ground value completely using
cron tab, this may work:

- gconftool-2 --direct --config-source \

xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type dtring --set \

/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename <filename>

- pkill gconfd-2

Pretty nasty hacks, since that pkill gconfd-2 is trying to ask all
running user's gconfd-2 to stop and will be restarted when its service
is required.

-Ghee
>
>

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Re: Background Doesn't Change via cron(8)

2009-10-03T11:57:50Z

On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 12:38 -0400, Shawn H Corey wrote:
> But not even a hint on how. Sigh.

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~doctormo/gnome-wallchanger/trunk/files

Martin,

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Re: Background Doesn't Change via cron(8)

2009-10-03T09:38:16Z

Martin Owens wrote:
> I fixed (read: hacked) the problem out of gnome-wallchanger project by
> creating a symlink in ~/.gnome2/ which gets updated by the cron job.
>
> The advice to create a specialised daemon to do it in session was deemed
> to be wasteful of resources and not principally utilising existing, well
> tested technologies.

But not even a hint on how. Sigh.

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Re: Background Doesn't Change via cron(8)

2009-10-03T08:39:32Z

Matthias Clasen wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Shawn H Corey <shawnhcorey@...> wrote:
>
>> You mean like this?
>>
>> gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename
>> $WALLPAPERS/${ALIST[$number]}
>>
>> I am; doesn't work with cron(8).
>>
>
> You should really do this in your session.
> There is no particular need to change your background when you are not
> logged in, right ?
>

Since I'm the only one using the machine, this hasn't been the problem.

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Re: Background Doesn't Change via cron(8)

2009-10-03T08:31:28Z

On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 11:23 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> You should really do this in your session.
> There is no particular need to change your background when you are not
> logged in, right ?

It's an outstanding issue with gnome that they broke the hell out of
gconf and/or forgot to implement a session crond.

I fixed (read: hacked) the problem out of gnome-wallchanger project by
creating a symlink in ~/.gnome2/ which gets updated by the cron job.

The advice to create a specialised daemon to do it in session was deemed
to be wasteful of resources and not principally utilising existing, well
tested technologies.

Martin,

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Re: Background Doesn't Change via cron(8)

2009-10-03T08:23:11Z

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Shawn H Corey <shawnhcorey@...> wrote:

>
> You mean like this?
>
> gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename
> $WALLPAPERS/${ALIST[$number]}
>
> I am; doesn't work with cron(8).
>

You should really do this in your session.
There is no particular need to change your background when you are not
logged in, right ?
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Re: Background Doesn't Change via cron(8)

2009-10-03T08:19:43Z

Emmanuele Bassi wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 10:06 -0400, Shawn H Corey wrote:
>
>> * It changes ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/background/%gconf.xml
>
> oh, god. why are you doing this?
>
> use gconftool to change the gconf database.
>
>> Apparently, gconfd-2 is not getting informed of the change. Its cache
>> still has the old values. How do I fix this?
>
> by using the right tool for the job.
>
> ciao,
> Emmanuele.
>

You mean like this?

gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename
$WALLPAPERS/${ALIST[$number]}

I am; doesn't work with cron(8).

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Re: Background Doesn't Change via cron(8)

2009-10-03T07:12:06Z

On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 10:06 -0400, Shawn H Corey wrote:

> * It changes ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/background/%gconf.xml

oh, god. why are you doing this?

use gconftool to change the gconf database.

> Apparently, gconfd-2 is not getting informed of the change. Its cache
> still has the old values. How do I fix this?

by using the right tool for the job.

ciao,
Emmanuele.

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Background Doesn't Change via cron(8)

2009-10-03T07:06:39Z

Hi,

I have just installed Ubuntu 9.04 on my PowerBook G4. I have a cron job
that suppose to change the background.

* It worked on Ubuntu 8.04
* It works from a terminal
* It changes ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/background/%gconf.xml

What it doesn't do is change the image.

Apparently, gconfd-2 is not getting informed of the change. Its cache
still has the old values. How do I fix this?

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2009-09-21T02:19:35Z

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gconftool-2 --makefile-uninstall-rules do not clean /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults?

2009-08-15T03:17:15Z

Hello.

I am a gentoo user and I just tried Gnome 2.26. I carelessly installed
the whole Gnome into my laptop yesterday and soon uninstalled those
accessories which seems not so useful for me. But I notice that there
are plenty of entries left in the gconf-editor. I tried to restart my
system and did not start X. I reinstalled those parts and manually
gconftool-2 --makefile-uninstall-rules those schema files before I
uninstalled them again. I also cleaned my ~/.gconf directory. But I
still disappointedly found those entries still listed in my
gconf-editor, noticing that /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree
contains a lot of things which belong to those purged parts.

One of Gentoo Gnome developers told me that ebuild actually did
gconftool-2 --makefile-uninstall-rules for me while purging. And IMHO
this might be a "feature" of gconf.

I googled a lot about "clean gconf" but find no solution but
gconf-cleaner. But this tool is no longer maintained and is also
deprecated since it can cause rather critical errors. Since gconf-2
lasts for several years, I cannot scrunitize all the emails in the
list. I am wondering that is this expected? Will this be solved in
gconf-3?

(I noticing that Ubuntu might also have this problem. I test this on
Ubuntu 8.04 and aptitude purge gnome-keyring and them found those
entries left also.)

Thank you very much.
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"Could not send message to GConf daemon"

2009-08-07T06:57:18Z

Hello,

I have upgraded Fedora from 10 to 11, and I use XFCE 4.6 from repo.
Every time I start tsclient (when I use normal user account) below error
appears:

"Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that
you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS
locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for
information. (Details - 1: Could not send message to GConf daemon: The
name org.gnome.GConf was not provided by any .service files)"

Could you tell me what should I do to remove this error?

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Re: the easiest way to lock gnome panels?

2009-06-03T14:46:59Z

Hi,

> I write you for one question. Sorry if it is too basic. I didn't found
> the information on Internet.
>
> Some volunteers installed four recycled computers with Gnu/Linux+Gnome
> in a association what help refugees. Most of this people (refugees)
> come from rural zones where they never had a computer. Sometimes they
> start experimenting alone with the mouse and the desktop, and hide the
> Gnome panels, so they don't know how to make it appear a new panel and
> build the applets and desktop, and the desktop becomes blank and
> useless.
>
> Do you know which is the easiest way to protect gnome panels? Sabayon?
> Gconf? or change the attributes of some file from the command line?
>

Have a look at:

http://library.gnome.org/admin/deployment-guide/

This message is sort of offtopic for gconf-list though.

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the easiest way to lock gnome panels?

2009-05-31T03:49:44Z

Hello,

my name is Alex from Barcelona, and I am not an advanced user of Linux.

I write you for one question. Sorry if it is too basic. I didn't found
the information on Internet.

Some volunteers installed four recycled computers with Gnu/Linux+Gnome
in a association what help refugees. Most of this people (refugees)
come from rural zones where they never had a computer. Sometimes they
start experimenting alone with the mouse and the desktop, and hide the
Gnome panels, so they don't know how to make it appear a new panel and
build the applets and desktop, and the desktop becomes blank and
useless.

Do you know which is the easiest way to protect gnome panels? Sabayon?
Gconf? or change the attributes of some file from the command line?

Thanks a lot,

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Re: avoiding translation overhead in GConf

2009-05-06T09:06:00Z

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Matthias Clasen
<matthias.clasen@...> wrote:
> While we are talking about what is good for GConf...
>
> I have gotten Martin Pitts patch to keep schema translations on the
> client-side to work, finally, and would be interested in landing that
> in 2.27. Bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568845 has the
> final patch as well as the necessary intltool counterpart. Review
> appreciated.

I have now branched gconf, so this can land now. Review would still be
appreciated...
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new icons for gconf-editor (finally)

2009-05-01T16:15:35Z

Hi gconf developers!

I hope this is somehow the right place to post this.

The icons used in gconf-editor are very old and do not fit the GNOME desktop in any way. There have been some nice icon sets for gconf-editor but they never got updated. Maybe because of licensing problems. However, I made a new set of icons based on a tango icon. So they totally fit the GNOME desktop no matter which theme and color you use and look modern. I license them under GPLv2 but we can use any license which suits you best.
Please have a look at the preview of the icons.
Related Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561040#c5

So please tell me what you think and what we can do to make this set of icons implemented so finally gconf-editor looks beautiful.

Best,
Martin

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avoiding translation overhead in GConf

2009-04-27T06:54:44Z

While we are talking about what is good for GConf...

I have gotten Martin Pitts patch to keep schema translations on the
client-side to work, finally, and would be interested in landing that
in 2.27. Bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568845 has the
final patch as well as the necessary intltool counterpart. Review
appreciated.

Matthias
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gconf error

2009-04-24T07:31:01Z

did noone know a solution ????

Der Konfigurationsserver konnte nicht kontaktiert werden; mögliche
Fehlerquellen sind, dass TCP/IP für ORBit nicht aktiviert ist oder
auf Grund eines Systemabsturzes alte NFS-Sperren gesetzt sind.
Unter http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ erhalten Sie weitere
Informationen (Details – 1: Verbindung zur Sitzung konnte nicht
abgerufen werden: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include:
the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus
security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or
the network connection was broken.)

I search at google and there are thousands of people with that
problem, ubuntu, arch, suse, red hat, all distris has it.

a big problem, a lot of programs do not work, firefox, nautilus,
and so on.

bye
Jürgen

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Configuring Gnome apps without Gnome

2009-04-23T04:24:48Z

I hope that this is the right list. There is no gnome-users list on
mail.gnome.org.

I need to configure some global Gnome settings for use in F-Spot, Zim,
and other GTK/Gnome applications, however as a KDE user I do not have
the full Gnome desktop installed and therefore I do not have the
configuration dialogs. Googling for Gnome configuration setting yields
little results, presumably, Gnome users don't do that! Please assist
me in locating the proper files and syntax for configuring:
1) Single click as opposed to double click to activate items.
2) Large icons with no text.
3) More will come as we begin to use the applications in production.

Thanks!

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also error contact configuration server

2009-04-23T01:54:59Z

Hi, I have also this error message:
Error message:
GConf error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible
causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or
you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details -
1: Server ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)

it is so, that it happens also in gedit, nautilus, firefox, opera,
dillo, epiphany .....

This error occurs NOT at my main user, only at my other accounts,
so perhaps something with policy ?
When I logged in and I switch user or I open a terminal, make su
xxx and start then firefox , this error occurs.

I tried also to solve that problem to upgrade from 2.24 to
gconf2 2.26.0-0ubuntu
but nothing, the error is not going away.
any suggestions ?

best regards
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No idea Gconf error

2009-04-13T11:50:11Z

Hi, i guess i have corrupted system, but don't know what exactly

Application:
gedit, nautilus

Error message:
GConf error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Server ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)

Version:
gconftool-2 2.24.0

Output:
# ps jaxwww | grep gconf
1 29836 29817 29817 ? -1 S 0 0:01 /usr/lib/GConf/2/gconfd-2
30800 30872 30871 30800 pts/0 30871 S+ 0 0:00 grep gconf
# gconf-sanity-ckeck-1
bash: gconf-sanity-ckeck-1: command not found
# gconf-sanity-ckeck-2
bash: gconf-sanity-ckeck-2: command not found

Can't create log at /var/log/user after adding user.* /var/log/user in /etc/sysconf.log
OS:openSUSE 11.1 X Window

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Best regards,

Jalil

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Thread safety

2009-04-09T06:04:00Z

Hi,

Can anyone tell me and explain whether I need gdk_threads_enter/leave calls,
when using GConfClient in a multi-threaded GTK+ program, from a thread other
than the main thread?

I've skimmed the gconf docs and the GDK threads overview but I'm still unclear.

Many thanks
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My gsoc idea, which relates to gconf

2009-03-18T19:14:20Z

Hello. I'd like to discuss the idea I've had for Summer of Code this
year, which i mentioned on gnome-soc-list but realised it would be
better discussed here. Here's an overview of the idea:

Basically using GConf in a standard GNOME application is a lot harder
than it could be, and although there have been various localised
solutions to the problem I think gconf integration needs a few months
of love. Hopefully an example is the best way to explain what I want to achieve.
Let's say Joe starts work on a revolutionary new GNOME application.
Before long he has some things he'd like to make configurable and
expose to the user. He then has to:

* Hand-write a gconf .schemas file, which is a little annoying
* Perhaps make a header with #define KEY_FOO_BAR
"/apps/my-app-with-a-long-name/foo/bar" etc.
* Write gconf notify hooks to update his application's state.
* Make a dialog with widgets to control these settings, neatly aligned
and indented to match other GNOME apps - it's annoying wrestling with
vbox padding etc. in Glade, or having to modify an existing apps
dialog, when these things normally follow the same pattern.
* Connect all the widgets to the gconf properties - which each project
solves in a different way, some writing a special callback for each
widget, some writing their own code to do so automatically, and it
seems none of them using the 'gconf-bridge' library which I only
discovered this afternoon.

When I'm done, this workflow should hopefully change to:
* Define the keys he wants to use, in format nicer than XML
* Define the dialogs he wants to use, in a simple heirarchical way.
* Write gconf notify hooks to update the application's state.
* Add a macro to his autoconf file, or wscript or whatever he likes to
use, and link to the correct library.

There's a couple of obvious points raised, which I'd like to hear
anyone's comments on.

1. Integration with gconf: it would be nice if this tool & library
could become part of the gconf package rather than introducing yet
another dependency to certain projects. Obviously the portion of the
library which connects to gtk+ can't go in the main gconf library, but
maybe a function to bind to generic properties etc. could do?

2. The schemas format. I don't really like hand-coding XML, and much
prefer making keys that look like this:
(key "import/file-name-parsing/enable" bool
:default true
:blurb "Enable file name parsing")
Compare that to the 10 lines of XML it produces in the .schemas file.
However, it seems silly to include a tool with gconf to turn schemas
from one format into another, when gconf could be modified to read the
new format directly. But I have a bad feeling about adding a schemas
format other than XML - I don't know why.

3. I saw a comment last year about how gconf is going stale and we
should wait for something else, like dconf. I'd hope that's not an
issue with regards this project, since
a) anyone writing an app now, needs to use the gconf API, and will
for the forseeable future, and
b) The described GSettings API makes almost none of this project
redundant. The dconf site said nothing about the .schemas file format.

And this doesn't have to be in the soc project, but does fit in with
the idea of consolidating code into gconf:
4. A couple of places (libeel, libgames-support) create pointless
wrapper API's which create a global gconf client and then use that, in
preference to calling gconf_client_get_default() each time they want
to call a gconf_* method. Surely this functionality could be merged
into gconf fairly easily?

There's some more info in my post to gnome-soc-list:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-soc-list/2009-March/msg00039.html
However, I hope there's some positive response to my idea on this
list. I actually began with the idea of making a new package, but the
more I thought about it the more being part of gconf seemed to make
more sense. Anyway, I'd love to hear the opinions of gconf users and
developers on this project and thanks for taking the time to read this
long mail!

Sam Thursfield
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Re: gconf doubts

2009-03-05T06:04:15Z

Hi,

gconf is supposed to be abstracting the file storage, in fact it can
theoretically have multiple backends doing the file storage in
different ways. That's why this stuff is not documented.

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 8:57 AM, John Coppens <john@...> wrote:
> - As things got more complicated (in my program), I decided to subdivide
> saving of options and made (manually) two subdirectories in the original
> app's. They didn't appear until an empty %gconf.xml was copied inside.

That's true. gconfd will probably delete the directories again too, if
they are empty. Directories only exist in gconf if there's something
in them.

> - Can keys and directories be at the same level? I.e., can I have
> directories and a non-empty %gconf.xml at the same level? I did a few
> tests and found that it was _not_ possible, but I may have made some
> mistakes there.

No, each key is either a directory or a value.

> - Am I mistaken that the file/dir permissions _have_ to be 600/700?

The file storage (which files exist, permissions, etc.) is all
"undefined" as far as the API contract goes. There's no control over
it from the gconf API.

Havoc
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gconf doubts

2009-03-05T05:57:28Z

Hello people.

I've been playing around with gconf for a while and was able to store
(and load) preferences for my program. Still, a few things are confusing:

- As things got more complicated (in my program), I decided to subdivide
saving of options and made (manually) two subdirectories in the original
app's. They didn't appear until an empty %gconf.xml was copied inside.

- Can keys and directories be at the same level? I.e., can I have
directories and a non-empty %gconf.xml at the same level? I did a few
tests and found that it was _not_ possible, but I may have made some
mistakes there.

- Am I mistaken that the file/dir permissions _have_ to be 600/700?

Is there somewhere I can read these technical items? They don't seem to
documented in the main docs.

John
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Re: System crash

2009-02-26T01:04:29Z

Hi

On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 20:53 +0700, callum shipley wrote:

> Hi. My name's Callum and there's something wrong with my Ubuntu 8.10
> system. I think tinkered where I shouldn't have! Yes, I'm absolutely
> clueless about these things.
>
> This is the error message that pops up whenever I click on anything:
>
> An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information
> for gconf-editor. Some of your configuration settings may not work
> properly.
>
> Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that
> you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS
> locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/
> for information. (Details - 1: Server ping error:
> IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)

Most likely a stale lock file. Try removing orbit-<username> from /tmp.

>
> I cannot open any application, folder or file. Is there a way to
> repair the system without losing my data?
>
> Thank you!
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System crash

2009-02-22T05:53:06Z

Hi. My name's Callum and there's something wrong with my Ubuntu 8.10 system. I think tinkered where I shouldn't have! Yes, I'm absolutely clueless about these things.

This is the error message that pops up whenever I click on anything:

An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for gconf-editor. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.

Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Server ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)

I cannot open any application, folder or file. Is there a way to repair the system without losing my data?

Thank you!

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