GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 619745
Users should be able to save and load their settings in a more efficient, reliable fashion
Last modified: 2011-01-15 23:01:19 UTC
Currently Orca settings all live in $HOME/.orca in text files we write out ourselves. This is: * inelegant * not in keeping with GNOME community standards (gconf; gsettings) * brittle if something prevents the settings from being written out successfully * not idea for transferring settings across multiple workstations It would be great if Orca had an option in the Orca Preferences dialog by which a user could save/export all of his/her current settings as well as load/import settings which had already been saved.
See also bug 619398 (the gsettings conversion work we need to do -- presumably first).
(In reply to comment #0) > Currently Orca settings all live in $HOME/.orca in text files we write out > ourselves. This is: > ... > > * not in keeping with GNOME community standards (gconf; gsettings) > > ... See also GnomeShell Magnifier page where some of the magnification settings are handled using GConf. The names and possible values are listed throughout the "Implemented Features" section (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Magnification#Implemented_Features).
(In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #0) > > Currently Orca settings all live in $HOME/.orca in text files we write out > > ourselves. This is: > > ... > > > > * not in keeping with GNOME community standards (gconf; gsettings) > > > > ... > > See also GnomeShell Magnifier page where some of the magnification settings are > handled using GConf. The names and possible values are listed throughout the > "Implemented Features" section > (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Magnification#Implemented_Features). This is very useful info. Thanks :-) We'll use this info for the related bug 619398.
(3.0 Planning Spam-o-rama. Sorry!)
Marking for inclusion in 3.0. Also adding it to the Andalucía metabug list since yáll are the ones doing the work anyway. :-) (As a reminder, this is the thing which will give users the ability to save and load alternative keybindings, amongst other things. :-))
the settings refcactor seems to fix this. Please reopen if needed.