Is dconf a new idea that no one has taken up, or is it obsolescent, or what?

[Chris Green]

On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 06:53:09PM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Mittwoch, den 03.02.2021, 16:25 +0000 schrieb Chris Green:
> > I just discovered that gnucash stores user preferences in
> > dconf.  That
> > threw me a bit because it's different from just about every other
> > Linux program I have ever worked with.
> > 
> IIRC gconf was developed for GNOME apps around the GNOME2/GTK1.x time
> with GNOME3/GTK2 dconf was introduced as a successor. this in turn got
> replaced by gsettings nowadays ... depending on the age of an app you
> will find all three of them still in use (though i think even in
> universe GTK1.x apps are rare noawdays) ...
> 
gsettings *is* dconf, it's just another interface to the same dconf
data file the the dconf command accesses.

However what I'm really asking is what programs/apps *should* be using
dconf.  Very few 'programs' do (only gnucash and soundconverter on my
system), most use seems to be desktop configuration settings.


-- 
Chris Green