Longer term projects

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Thu Jan 12 14:52:57 EST 2012


Op donderdag 12 januari 2012 14:33:32 schreef Derek Atkins:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, January 12, 2012 2:29 pm, Phil Longstaff wrote:
> > I hadn't seen GSettings before.  Interesting.  I had come up with
> > gnc_prefs object system which seems to work in a similar manner to
> > GSettings.  GSettings also allows alternate backends, so we can somewhat
> > transparently have different sets of settings (global, per-file,
> > per-user, per-user-per-file) with a common API.
> > 
> > It was introduced in 2.26.  Is that too new for all of our supported
> > platforms?
> 
> Fedora 15 only has gtk-2.24
> 
Actually GSettings is part of the glib2 library. Redhat 6 only ships 2.22.

As that is one of our base platforms for 2.6, that unfortunately means we 
can't use GSettings yet for the next major release.

Geert


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