gsettings: Add a documentation section on relocatable schemas

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741788
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Philip Withnall 2014-12-19 21:03:46 +00:00
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*
* Normally, a schema has as fixed path that determines where the settings
* are stored in the conceptual global tree of settings. However, schemas
* can also be 'relocatable', i.e. not equipped with a fixed path. This is
* can also be '[relocatable][gsettings-relocatable]', i.e. not equipped with
* a fixed path. This is
* useful e.g. when the schema describes an 'account', and you want to be
* able to store a arbitrary number of accounts.
*
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* automatically binds it to the writability of the bound setting.
* If this 'magic' gets in the way, it can be suppressed with the
* #G_SETTINGS_BIND_NO_SENSITIVITY flag.
*
* ## Relocatable schemas # {#gsettings-relocatable}
*
* A relocatable schema is one with no `path` attribute specified on its
* <schema> element. By using g_settings_new_with_path(), a #GSettings object
* can be instantiated for a relocatable schema, assigning a path to the
* instance. Paths passed to g_settings_new_with_path() will typically be
* constructed dynamically from a constant prefix plus some form of instance
* identifier; but they must still be valid GSettings paths. Paths could also
* be constant and used with a globally installed schema originating from a
* dependency library.
*
* For example, a relocatable schema could be used to store geometry information
* for different windows in an application. If the schema ID was
* `org.foo.MyApp.Window`, it could be instantiated for paths
* `/org/foo/MyApp/main/`, `/org/foo/MyApp/document-1/`,
* `/org/foo/MyApp/document-2/`, etc. If any of the paths are well-known
* they can be specified as <child> elements in the parent schema, e.g.:
* |[
* <schema id="org.foo.MyApp" path="/org/foo/MyApp/">
* <child name="main" schema="org.foo.MyApp.Window"/>
* </schema>
* ]|
*/
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