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Bug 664278 - Ability to clean up / reset keys without schemas
Ability to clean up / reset keys without schemas
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 649408
Product: dconf-editor
Classification: Other
Component: general
0.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: dconf-editor maintainer(s)
dconf-editor maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-11-17 14:43 UTC by Jean-François Fortin Tam
Modified: 2015-09-21 15:55 UTC
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Description Jean-François Fortin Tam 2011-11-17 14:43:55 UTC 
It seems that with time and the migration of old apps, old keys without schemas litter dconf and make the tree full of useless paths.

It would be nice to have a button to remove all the paths and keys that have no schema.
Comment 1 Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) 2011-11-17 14:56:18 UTC 
I agree.  This is something that's been talked about before.

We have to be mindful of a couple of things here, though:

 - not everyone using dconf is doing it via GSettings

 - even those who use it via GSettings may not have their schemas in the
   usual place

 - some software may not be installed locally, but on a different machine
   with which we share the home directory


For all 3 of these reasons, we should not just have a big red button, but rather some way to make a list of apparent orphans that allows the user to tell us which should be deleted.
Comment 2 chris 2011-11-17 17:19:25 UTC 
would it be useful to hide (from ... something?) schema-less items rather than delete them?

or have a 'move' option so you could un-delete them if things break?
Comment 3 Geert Janssens 2013-02-27 16:20:37 UTC 
Isn't this the same request as bug 649408 ?
Comment 4 André Klapper 2015-02-22 12:27:19 UTC 
[moving dconf>editor tickets to dconf-editor product. See bug 744791]
Comment 5 Arnaud B. 2015-09-21 15:55:16 UTC 
It is, basically, so I’m marking as duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 649408 ***