Re: dconf

2009-04-11 Thread Havoc Pennington
Hi, On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Vincent Untz wrote: > So far, I heard a performance argument. Anything else? > * The API for gconf is pretty awful, and could be a lot better for app developers. * Installing schemas into the config db is a big mess for distributions and sysadmins. * gconf

Re: Regression: How to get gnome-keyring-daemon to run before gvfsd in the session

2009-04-11 Thread Stef Walter
Stef Walter wrote: > I need the help of a Desktop session genius (is there a gnome-session > mailing list?). > > - gvfs has an SSH module which uses OpenSSH. > - OpenSSH checks for the presence of the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment >variable in order to integrate with SSH agents. > - gnome-keyri

Re: Metacity, Mutter, GNOME Shell, GNOME-2.28

2009-04-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Personally, we should cede the desktop to other projects like XFCE that work very well with minimal hardware requirements. I've noticed a lot of projects in GNOMEFiles with goals to write "lightweight" panels and what not. 10 years is a reasonable amount of time to expect hardware requirements t

Re: Metacity, Mutter, GNOME Shell, GNOME-2.28

2009-04-11 Thread Ruben Vermeersch
On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 14:24 +0200, Dodji Seketeli wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tomas Frydrych a écrit : > > Josselin Mouette wrote: > >> I don’t think maintaining a few more packages (especially packages that > >> already exist today) is a big effort. But it stills

Re: Metacity, Mutter, GNOME Shell, GNOME-2.28

2009-04-11 Thread Dodji Seketeli
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tomas Frydrych a écrit : > Josselin Mouette wrote: >> I don’t think maintaining a few more packages (especially packages that >> already exist today) is a big effort. But it stills bother me if we are >> going to propose two entirely different user exp

Re: dconf

2009-04-11 Thread A. Walton
2009/4/10 Josselin Mouette : > Le vendredi 10 avril 2009 à 15:15 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit : >> Just a stupid question... Why should we switch to GSettings? Ie, what >> does it bring us that we can't do with gconf? >> >> So far, I heard a performance argument. Anything else? > > Getting rid of th