On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 09:27:48 -0400,
Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 08:48 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> It would be nice to use gsettings to add or remove an item from the
> favorite-apps key without having to read the old list, parse it with
> something, pass a modified list back to gsettings to replace the old
> value.
>
> Is there any plan for gsettings to get a feature to do this in one step?
No immediate plan, no. I wouldn't necessarily reject a patch, but it is
a little hard to know where to stop, once you start down that route...
GSettings lets you store arbitrary variants.
I was afraid that the list structure was opaque to gsettings. That does
make it harder to start down that path, but isn't really a surprise.
The list format looks python friendly. I was a bit worried about writing
a script to use to process the changes in python for kickstart files,
but given that livecd-creator and anaconda both need python, it seems
pretty safe to assume python will be available where I need it.
Thanks for the response.