Bug#456114: gconf: Please support splitting preferences into multiple files by path

[Josselin Mouette]

Hi,

Le mercredi 12 décembre 2007 à 23:49 -0800, Josh Triplett a écrit :
> I keep my home directory in version control, as a means of sharing it
> across systems, keeping it backed up, and tracking changes to it.  I'd
> like to add some of my gconf configuration to version control as well.
> However, gconf contains various types of preferences, some of which I
> want to version and some of which I do not.  For instance, I would
> like to version /apps/metacity/general/num_workspaces,
> /apps/evolution/mail/display/thread_list, and most of
> /apps/gnome-terminal, but I do not want to version
> /apps/evolution/last_version,
> /apps/gnome-settings/gnome-panel/history-gnome-run, or
> /apps/meld/window_size_{x,y}.
> 
> Thus, I'd like the ability to have multiple readwrite gconf stores,
> with different (non-overlapping) sets of preferences stored in each.
> I could then have all the prefs I want to version stored in one file,
> machine-specific prefs stored in another file (bonus if I can use the
> hostname in the filename, so all the machine-specific files can
> coexist in parallel), all the prefs I never want to version in a file
> to ignore, and all other prefs in a new file so I can check and
> classify them.
> 
> This potentially shares some goals with online-prefs-sync, which would
> also benefit from having a list of preferences safe to sync across
> machines, and which provides some support for the idea of safely
> changing a store underneath gconf and having it notice.  However, it
> differs in several ways, most notably the use of local stores for
> everything.

This is definitely a good idea, but it far outreaches what we can afford
to do in Debian. You should bring this up on the upstream list
(gconf-list at gnome dot org).

Just like online-prefs-sync, this is also probably something that would
be more easily implemented as a separate application. Just define a list
of directories and dump them in a versioned directory, and you just have
to write some code to go back and forth. Symbolic links in the gconf
tree might also work.

Cheers,
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