[Bug 1222053] [NEW] per-session gsettings overrides

[Tim]

Public bug reported:

There have been several occasions now where Ubuntu GNOME has had to
patch code, that could in theory instead be handled by per-session
gsettings overrides. A recent example is the background plugin in gnome-
settings-daemon, this should be loaded under unity, gnome-flashback
sessions but not gnome-shell session. A per-session override would make
this possible without any patches to the codebase.

As I understand it the overrides are processed by glib-compile-schemas
so perhaps we would have to recompile schemas on each login to achieve
this? Any thoughts on how we can achieve this?

** Affects: glib2.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  per-session gsettings overrides

Status in “glib2.0” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  There have been several occasions now where Ubuntu GNOME has had to
  patch code, that could in theory instead be handled by per-session
  gsettings overrides. A recent example is the background plugin in
  gnome-settings-daemon, this should be loaded under unity, gnome-
  flashback sessions but not gnome-shell session. A per-session override
  would make this possible without any patches to the codebase.

  As I understand it the overrides are processed by glib-compile-schemas
  so perhaps we would have to recompile schemas on each login to achieve
  this? Any thoughts on how we can achieve this?

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