• hello_hello [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    3 days ago

    Underrated part of GNOME is that dconf is so easy to interface with compared to other bespoke configuration languages.

    It’s so programmatic in all the right ways.

    • blobjim [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      3 days ago

      I didn’t even realize KDE doesn’t have a settings API like GNOME. I thought they shared that stuff.

      But yeah the fact that settings have a schema, types, a storage backend, a DBus API, and a C API, make it really flexible and reliable. Like GNOME Tweaks and dconf Editor being able to configure the system from a Flatpak app that has some permissions holes punched in it.