Forgive my ignorance here, but doesn't gconf specify locale? How will this be 
affected by switching to dconf?

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From: meego-dev-boun...@meego.com [mailto:meego-dev-boun...@meego.com] On 
Behalf Of Arjan van de Ven
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 11:07 PM
To: Rob Taylor
Cc: meego-dev@meego.com; Ryan Lortie
Subject: Re: [MeeGo-dev] Dconf

On 1/19/2011 2:49 PM, Rob Taylor wrote:
>
> On 19 Jan 2011, at 00:28, Arjan van de Ven<ar...@linux.intel.com>  wrote:
>
>> On 1/19/2011 6:11 AM, Ville M. Vainio wrote:
>>> Now that the internet is telling me Ubuntu is warming up to Qt and making 
>>> Qt wrappers for dconf... Perhaps this is a bandwagon meego should jump to? 
>>> It's not like we have anything better lined up in that area.
>>> --
>>>
>>
>> this has come up several times ;-)
>>
>> we'll switch to dconf when we can obsolete gconf; hopefully that is soon, 
>> but for me it'd be a worst-case situation if we end up with both gconf and 
>> dconf at the same time. Yes dconf is better, but unless we can use it to 
>> replace the "old bad boy" we're not winning anything by going to it.
>>
> Could you bullet point out what you think is missing on the Dconf side for a 
> full transition in MeeGo?

it needs a plan and then execution to convert existing users of gconf... 
and their keys.
there are still many keys that are very generic and used by many folks
does dconf has a "compatibility mode" that maps gconf legacy paths to 
dconf ?

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