Re: How to handle required plugins and dbus services for GNOME Programs?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Federico Beffa <address@hidden> skribis:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

[...]

>> Really?  In Evince, I can change the state of various things (such as
>> whether or not to view documents continuously), but those changes are
>> lost across restarts.  However, changes made via dconf-editor are not
>> lost.  Weird no?
>
> 'dconf' is responsible for handling the program configuration. For
> writes, it contacts D-Bus, for read it doesn't need D-Bus.
>
> https://developer.gnome.org/dconf/0.22/dconf-overview.html
>
> If 'dconf' is not available, the program reverts to a 'memory' back-end
> and configuration is lost upon exit.

In this last sentence, are you referring to dconf-the-program,
dconf-the-library, or dconf-the-service?

dconf-the-package is in my profile, so I would expect Evince to
automatically dbus-launch it when it needs to save its settings, but
apparently that doesn’t happen.

> For this reason 'dconf' should be available to all GLib programs
> (implicit input to 'glib-or-gtk-build-system'?).

dconf-the-program?

Thanks,
Ludo’.