xdg-app and gtkmm

[Alexander Larsson]

On Thu, 2015-12-10 at 10:55 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-12-09 at 21:41 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> OK. Should I expect GSettings (which use DConf) to work at all? Or is
> this something I should try to fix:
> 
> (prefixsuffix:2): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to
> dconf:
> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown

If you want dconf to work right now you need to add:
   --talk-name=ca.desrt.dconf
To your build-finish operation, otherwise your app is not allowed to
talk to dconf (which is how dconf writes work). This will not be
required when we have the new dconf backend.