xdg-app and gtkmm

[Alexander Larsson]

On ons, 2015-12-09 at 20:54 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-12-09 at 14:31 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 
> I do actually have a "child" dconf profile set up in my regular
> environment, since some experiments I did with lockdown. Sorry, the
> generic name didn't remind me that I'd done it:
> http://www.murrayc.com/permalink/2015/01/30/locking-down-a-gnome-sett
> in
> g/
> 
> This error seems to have happened because I still have
> DCONF_PROFILE=child set in my environment, which normally makes dconf
> use the profile specified in my /etc/dconf/profile/child file. But
> there is no /etc/dconf/profile/child  when running under xdg-app.
> Maybe
> DCONF_PROFILE should be unset in the xdg-app environment, if xdg-apps
> are not meant to use the same dconf database as the regular system.

dconf is problematic in general, as we can't really see e.g. the system
database or system schemas. Also, its not possible to use in a sandbox.
The dconf guys are working on a different backend for use in sandboxed
apps, and I think that is the long-term better solution.


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