GNOME Goal: Gconf to GSettings migration

Summary

The GSettings class provides a convenient API for storing and retrieving application settings.

dconf is a low-level configuration system. Its main purpose is to provide a backend to GSettings on platforms that don't already have configuration storage systems. dconf is only the GSettings backend on Unix, on Windows things actually end up in the registry, and OS X has a native GSettings backend too.

$/!\$ Note: Most applications will not want to interface directly with dconf, but rather with GSettings.

Guidelines

Take a look to the official Migrating from GConf to GSettings. There is also an informative blogpost by Ryan.

Also, an example: gnome-utils porting example

Resources

Status of this goal

$/!\$ Note: Updated automatical stats can be found at http://people.gnome.org/~fpeters/reports/gsettings-migration.html

Tip: If you choose to work on a module, create the bug report on the GNOME bugzilla for the relevant module, and make it block bug 622558. This way people will know someone already works on it, and won't duplicate the work you're doing.

State	Markup
todo	`<: #ff8080> todo`
patch	`<: #ffcc50> [[GnomeBug:xxxxx\|patch]]`
done	`<: #80ff80> [[GnomeBug:xxxxx\|done]]`
not needed	`<: #80ff80> not needed`

Above are the states and corresponding markup to update the modules state table below.

Tarball	Status
core
gnome-bluetooth	properties and applet done (in 2.90.0)
gnome-control-center	done
gnome-desktop	done
gnome-keyring	done
gnome-power-manager	done
gnome-color-manager	done
gnome-packagekit	done
gnome-screensaver	done
gnome-session	done and done
gnome-settings-daemon	done
gnome-shell	done
gnome-terminal	done
gnome-user-share	done
gvfs	done, done
libgnomekbd	done
libgweather	done
libsoup	done
mousetweaks	done
mutter	done
network-manager-applet	done	only needed for fallback mode
pulseaudio	to do	only one module uses GConf, which is only needed for paprefs
core-utilities
baobab	done
brasero	done
empathy	done
epiphany	done
evince	done
evolution-data-server	done
eog	done
gcalctool	done
gnome-search-tool	done
gucharmap	done
yelp	done
core-extras
vino	done
core-fallback
gnome-panel	done
metacity	done
core-os-services
gdm	done
core-deps
folks	done
gst-plugins-good	done
libcanberra	done
pygobject	done
telepathy-mission-control	done
tracker	done
apps
accerciser	done
aislerot	todo	needs GSettingsList to complete
anjuta	done
cheese	done
devhelp	done
evolution	done
file-roller	done
gedit	done
gnome-games	done
gnome-nettool	done
nemiver	done
orca	done
seahorse	done
totem	done
vinagre	done
Other
abiword	not needed
aMule	done, done
banshee	patch
Chromium	to do
Comix	to do
dasher	done
ekiga	done
emerillon	done
evolution-ews	done
f-spot	to do
gdebi	not needed
Gecko Media Player	done
ghex	done
gkdebconf	to do
gksu	to do
gnome-applets	done
GNOME Phone Manager	done
gnome-system-tools	done
gnome-video-arcade	done
Gnumeric	done
gthumb	done
gtranslator	done
hamster-time-tracker	to do
libgnome-media-profiles	to do	needs GSettingsList to complete
libgoffice	done
libreoffice	done
Liferea	done
Light Themes	to do
Mail Notification	to do
nautilus-open-terminal	obsolete
OnTV	to do
PDF Mod	to do
Pidgin	to do
planner	to do
redshift	WON'T FIX
rhythmbox	done
shotwell	done
sound-juicer	patch
Spotify	to do
Terminator	to do
tomboy	to do
virt-manager	done
wxWidgets	to do	patch wanted
xchat-gnome	patch