gsettings and/or gconf

**tonemgub** · January 21st, 2011

Hello.
I have been writing an application for a few months and have used gconf for my first release. I know that maverick is using dconf and gsettings and that gnome recommends migrating to gsettings. The problem is that I want my application to run on both, maverick and lucid. Is there a seamless way (for the user) to use gsettings in lucid (something I, as a developer could do)? If possible, I would like to avoid having to code something like that:

Code:

#ifdef HAS_GSETTINGS
  g_settings_get...()
#else
  g_conf_get...()
#endif

Thank you for your help.

**tonemgub** · February 4th, 2011

I have done some more research and found out that there exists a temporary solution namely creating a file .convert in /usr/share/GConf/gsettings/. However, this approach requires gconf 2.31.1 and as lucid uses an earlier version, I don't think this approach would work.

**tonemgub** · February 8th, 2011

Anybody?!?

**tonemgub** · February 16th, 2011

bump

**tonemgub** · March 2nd, 2011

Am I in the wrong thread?

**altonbr** · July 29th, 2011

I've found Ubuntu Forums is lacking when it comes to technical talk. I would post this question on Ask Ubuntu or post this question to the Ubuntu or GNOME mailing lists.

**Habitual** · July 29th, 2011

Originally Posted by altonbr

I've found Ubuntu Forums is lacking when it comes to technical talk. I would post this question on Ask Ubuntu or post this question to the Ubuntu or GNOME mailing lists.

+5 for askubuntu.com

That's where the real "under the hood" folks hang out.