Bug#694340: ping?

[Josselin Mouette]

Hi Niel,

Le samedi 26 janvier 2013 à 10:54 +0000, Neil Williams a écrit : 
> The chances of libgconf being rewritten to use GDBus any time soon seem
> slim - and the chances of getting this kind of change into wheezy seems
> equally slim. Has anything happened on this bug since the last comment
> in November?
> 
> Overall, what's the status of this bug?

I’m afraid we’re stuck in a dead-end here. If we add the
dbus_threads_init_default() call, we’re at risk of triggering other
crashes, even harder to debug, as mentioned by Ray Strode.

Since Banshee does not use dbus-glib in other places, we can however put
calls to this function in the thread that uses GConf, right before the
GConf initialisation. I don’t know how hard it would be.

If that can help, I can add a convenience function (a private API hidden
in #ifdef’s) to initialize GConf with this call. It’s a bit ugly but we
know for sure it won’t impact anything outside Banshee.

Cheers,
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