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Re: How to handle required plugins and dbus services for GNOME Programs?
From: |
Federico Beffa |
Subject: |
Re: How to handle required plugins and dbus services for GNOME Programs? |
Date: |
Thu, 25 Jun 2015 14:16:52 +0200 |
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
I'm not sure about the terminology, but if you do
GIO_EXTRA_MODULES=/gnu/store/...-dconf-0.22.0/lib/gio/modules evince
it should work. (See comments in the 'glib-or-gtk-build-system'.)
>
>> For this reason 'dconf' should be available to all GLib programs
>> (implicit input to 'glib-or-gtk-build-system'?).
>
> dconf-the-program?
See above.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
- Re: How to handle required plugins and dbus services for GNOME Programs?, Federico Beffa, 2015/06/25
- Re: How to handle required plugins and dbus services for GNOME Programs?, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/06/25
- Re: How to handle required plugins and dbus services for GNOME Programs?,
Federico Beffa <=
- Re: How to handle required plugins and dbus services for GNOME Programs?, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/06/29
- Re: How to handle required plugins and dbus services for GNOME Programs?, Federico Beffa, 2015/06/30
- Re: How to handle required plugins and dbus services for GNOME Programs?, Mark H Weaver, 2015/06/30
- Re: How to handle required plugins and dbus services for GNOME Programs?, Federico Beffa, 2015/06/30
- Re: How to handle required plugins and dbus services for GNOME Programs?, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/06/30
Re: How to handle required plugins and dbus services for GNOME Programs?, Mark H Weaver, 2015/06/25