Bug 42068

Summary:	Should obey org.gnome.Empathy use-conn GSettings key
Product:	Telepathy	Reporter:	Will Thompson <will>
Component:	mission-control	Assignee:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	patch
Version:	git master
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
URL:	http://cgit.collabora.com/git/user/wjt/telepathy-mission-control-wjt.git/log/?h=gsettings
Whiteboard:	r+ with trivia
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Will Thompson 2011-10-20 10:17:14 UTC

Empathy has a GSettings key which allows advanced users to instruct it to assume it's always online, even if NM claims otherwise. This is particularly useful for Telepathy hackers on trains and planes, using a local XMPP server for testing. ;)

MC currently has no way to do this.

Alex Larsson suggested a way (endorsed by Ryan Lortie) to give MC a GSettings key which is kept in sync with the Empathy one. The approach is to define a schema whose identifier is im.telepathy.MissionControl.StolenFromEmpathy but whose path is /org/gnome/empathy/ which has a single key, 'use-conn'. This would mean a separate setting would be visible in (say) gsettings list-recursively, but under the bonnet they would use the same value stored in dconf. So this gives us a migration path that doesn't make MC depend on Empathy or require syncing versions of the two up too closely.

Comment 1 Will Thompson 2011-11-03 09:55:42 UTC

Well, I have a branch here, but it doesn't work, and I can't figure out why not. It always believes the key to be true, and doesn't react to changes. (But the gsettings command-line tool reads the value properly…)

Comment 2 Will Thompson 2011-11-03 10:17:07 UTC

Oh actually it does work. Ignore me. (Well, don't ignore me! Review my branch!)

Comment 3 Simon McVittie 2011-11-03 11:01:56 UTC

+export GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR=@abs_top_builddir@/data

More portable as:

GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR=@abs_top_builddir@/data
export GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR

Other than that, looks good.

Comment 4 Will Thompson 2011-11-04 11:46:20 UTC

Fixed the trivia (and another non-POSIX export) and merged; thanks!

<http://cgit.freedesktop.org/telepathy/telepathy-mission-control/commit/?id=b89a27403d632725504c21c6079b936f9c1c6c9c>

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