gnome-vfs2 / GConf2 / dbus

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 20:25 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org> wrote:
>>> > In general,  gnome is moving away from Bonobo/Orbit toward dbus based
>>> > messaging.
>>>
>>> Yeah, there is no plan yet (that I know of) to replace GConf with
>>> something dbus based though :(
>>
>> Dunno current plans...
>>
>> There does seem to be code....
>>
>> http://developer.imendio.com/projects/misc/gconf-dbus
>>                    - Jim
>>
>
> I think we use this already - http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3991

Yeah, it's never going to be merged upstream though... It's basically
a stop gap for embedded devices (it was for Nokia I think), until
something better comes along.

Marco