Part of the purpose of g_settings_get_child() was that it could be used
after you delay() a GSettings object, and then apply() all of the
settings together. In order for that to work, we need to share the
backend.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720891
Allow only format strings that copy all values (i.e, don't contain '&'),
as the returned pointers might become invalid in some rare cases.
Since this is technically an API break, this patch only prints a
critical when a faulty format string is detected, but still fetches the
values.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719979
Add g_settings_schema_has_key() and _get_range(), _range_check(),
_get_value_type(), _get_default_value() methods on GSettingsSchemaKey.
Deprecate the equivalent APIs on GSettings.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683017
Add two new APIs: g_settings_get_user_value() and
g_settings_get_default_value(). Together, these should allow the
inspection of all interesting cases of "is this key set?" and "what
would happen if I reset this key?"
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668233
Add two boolean parameters to our internal getter utility function in
anticipation of the coming addition of g_settings_get_user_value() and
g_settings_get_default_value() APIs.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668233
As it turns out, we have examples of internal functions called
type_name_get_private() in the wild (especially among older libraries),
so we need to use a name for the per-instance private data getter
function that hopefully won't conflict with anything.
Back in the far-off twentieth century, it was normal on unix
workstations for U+0060 GRAVE ACCENT to be drawn as "‛" and for U+0027
APOSTROPHE to be drawn as "’". This led to the convention of using
them as poor-man's ‛smart quotes’ in ASCII-only text.
However, "'" is now universally drawn as a vertical line, and "`" at a
45-degree angle, making them an `odd couple' when used together.
Unfortunately, there are lots of very old strings in glib, and also
lots of new strings in which people have kept up the old tradition,
perhaps entirely unaware that it used to not look stupid.
Fix this by just using 'dumb quotes' everywhere.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700746
We were using the user-passed value of the @property argument for
several purposes in g_settings_bind(): error messages, binding
uniqueness (ie: one-binding-per-property-per-object) and most
importantly, connecting to the detailed notify:: signal.
The user may pass a string like "property_name" when the property's
canonical name is "property-name". g_object_class_find_property() will
find the property under these circumstances, but a connection to
"notify::property_name" will not notice notifies emitted for
"property-name".
We can solve this by using the user's string to perform the lookup and
then using pspec->name for everything after that.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684882
Prevent attempts to access keys ending with slashes that exist in the
schema file as references to child schemas.
Also: don't emit change signals for these same keys.
First, correct a rather dubious case of accessing a GSettingsSchemaKey
after clearing it. This was technically okay because only the key name
was accessed (and it is not owned by the struct) but it looks very
wrong.
Second, have g_settings_backend_write() sink the passed in GVariant*.
Not all backends get this right, and I'm starting to like the pattern of
virtual function wrappers being responsible for sinking the parameters
that they are documented as consuming.
g_settings_create_action() will create a GAction for the named key,
allowing it to be added to the action group of the application (so that
the setting can be directly manipulated from menus, for example).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668279
This is strictly redundant now that we can get the ID from the schema
itself. Its only other purpose was to get the schema name from the
set_property() call to the constructed() call and we can avoid that by
doing the schema lookup at the time of the property being set.
These functions no longer have anything to do with GSettings itself, so
they should not be in that file anymore.
GSettings still wants direct access to the GSettingsSchemaKey structure,
so put that one in gsettingsschema-internal.h.
Add g_main_context_ref_thread_default(), which always returns a
reffed GMainContext, rather than sometimes returning a (non-reffed)
GMainContext, and sometimes returning NULL. This simplifies the
bookkeeping in any code that needs to keep a reference to the
thread-default context for a while.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660994
This reverts commit c841c2ce3f.
This approach has been an unmitigated disaster. We're getting all sorts
of crashes due to functions that are returning NULL because they can't
find the schema for the default value. The people who get these crashes
are then confused about the root cause of the problem and waste a lot of
time trying to figure it out.
Until we find a better solution, we should go back to what we had
before.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655366
