On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Giovanni Campagna <scampa.giova...@gmail.com> wrote: > Il giorno mer, 25/05/2011 alle 22.14 +1000, Tim Cuthbertson ha scritto: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm planning to add some gsettings or gconf integration to Erick >> Pérez's workspace indicator extension >> (https://github.com/erick2red/shell-extensions) to allow the user to >> configure the label text format. So I have a couple of questions: >> >> - Is gsettings or gconf preferred for extension code? I have the vague >> impression that gsettings is newer and shinier, but not much more than >> that. > > GSettings is the only supported configuration system for GNOME 3.0. > GConf is deprecated (and it's likely to disappear soon from most > systems).
Ahh ok, thanks. >> - Is there a designated (or suggested) namespace or prefix that gnome >> shell extensions should place their conf keys within, or shall I just >> make something up? Should I put it inside >> org.gnome.shell.extensions.<extension-id> or something? > > Currently, extensions that use GSettings use > "org.gnome.shell.extensions.<extension-id>" and > "/org/gnome/shell/extensions/<extension-id>", yes. I think you can > follow that prefix, if you plan to have it hosted by > gnome-shell-extensions GIT. > Otherwise, it is better to use your own ID (like > org.project.YourExtension and /org/project/YourExtension), to avoid > clobbering namespaces you don't own. It seems that either (1) extension IDs should be unique (regardless of how they are distributed), or (2) there could be a nested namespace, e.g org.gnome.shell.extensions.net.gfxmonk.whatever. I assumed that (1) was the case. > Giovanni > > PS: note that extensions with GSettings must be installed system-wide, > so you'd better have them in gnome-shell-extensions repo, so they're > picked up by distribution packages. Really? can I ask what the reason for this is? I am personally a pretty big fan of *not* installing things system-wide, but would still like to use GSettings... Cheers, - Tim _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
