4 Gnome is deprecating GConf in favour of GSettings. This is the short story.
5 We so have to migrate several pool of datas.
7 Starting with 3.1.0, Nautilus-Actions is provided with the needed migrations
8 tools, whether the migration may occur automatically (for users items and
9 preferences), or the system admin must run a script (for mandatory items).
11 Note that this does not break backward compatibility. The 3.1.x serie of
12 Nautilus-Actions may still be run on a "old" platform. The oldest supported
15 1. Items, menus and actions, stored in GConf backend
16 ----------------------------------------------------
17 Historically, actions, then menus, were stored in GConf. These are user items.
19 A system admin is free to define mandatory menus and actions, and to store
20 them in the Mandatory pool of GConf. So defined items are so available to
21 all users, though as read-only items.
23 1a. Migrating user items
24 ------------------------
26 user items are automatically migrated from GConf to .desktop files.
28 The migration happens when the user runs the Nautilus-Actions Configuration
29 Tool user interface, or when the Nautilus-Actions menu plugin is loaded
30 by the Nautilus file-manager, or when the user runs one of the command-line
31 tools nautilus-actions-new or nautilus-actions-run.
33 The nautilus-actions-print command-line tool, along with na-delete-xmltree,
34 and na-print-schemas installed in PKGLIBEXECDIR, have no effect on the
37 The new .desktop files are stored in HOME/.local/file-manager/actions.
39 When the migration of its items has occurred, the GConf I/O Provider is
40 disabled, both for reading and writing.
42 1b. Migrating mandatory items
43 -----------------------------
45 the system admin has to manually run PKGLIBEXECDIR/gconf2key.sh script
46 as root in order to migrate existing mandatory items to .desktop files.
48 The new .desktop files default to be stored in /usr/share/file-manager/actions.
50 It is enough to run this script once, e.g. when installing for the first time
51 a recent enough version (>= 3.1.0) of Nautilus-Actions.
54 # /usr/libexec/nautilus-actions/na-gconf2key.sh -delete -nodummy
56 2. User preferences stored in GConf
57 -----------------------------------
58 Mandatory and user preferences follow the same migration rules that items:
60 - user preferences are automatically migrated,
61 - mandatory preferences have to be manually migrated by the system admin.
63 Preferences are renamed and reorganized:
66 ----------------------------------------- ------ --------------------------------------
67 add-capability-dialog = [720,263,384,246] [nact] capability-add-capability-wsp
68 add-scheme-dialog = [720,263,352,271] [nact] scheme-add-scheme-wsp
69 assistant-esc-confirm = true [nact] assistant-esc-confirm
70 assistant-esc-quit = true [nact] assistant-esc-quit
71 auto-save-on = false [nact] main-save-auto
72 auto-save-period = 5 [nact] main-save-period
73 export-assistant = [377,33,699,675] [nact] export-assistant-wsp
74 export-ask-user = [377,33,699,675] [nact] export-ask-user-wsp
75 export-ask-user-last-format = GConfEntry [nact] export-ask-user-last-format
76 export-folder-uri = file:///home/pierre.. [nact] export-assistant-lfu
77 export-format = Ask [nact] export-preferred-format
78 icommand-command-chooser [nact] command-command-chooser-wsp
79 icommand-folder-uri [nact] command-command-chooser-lfu
80 icommand-legend-dialog = [673,94,474,480] [nact] command-legend-wsp
81 icommand-working-dir-dialog [nact] command-working-dir-chooser-wsp
82 icommand-working-dir-uri = file:///home.. [nact] command-working-dir-chooser-lfu
83 icons-chooser = [425,124,839,539] [nact] item-icon-chooser-wsp
84 icons-path = file:///usr/share/icons/hi.. [nact] item-icon-chooser-last-file-uri
85 ienvironment-show-if-running-dialog = [.. [nact] environment-show-if-running-wsp
86 ienvironment-show-if-running-uri = file.. [nact] environment-show-if-running-lfu
87 ienvironment-try-exec-dialog = [327,70,.. [nact] environment-try-exec-wsp
88 ienvironment-try-exec-uri = file:///bin [nact] environment-try-exec-lfu
89 ifolders-chooser = [418,86,632,573] [nact] folder-chooser-wsp
90 ifolders-path = /home/pierre/data/Pictures [nact] folder-chooser-lfu
91 import-ask-user [nact] import-ask-user-wsp
92 import-ask-user-last-mode [nact] import-ask-user-last-mode
93 import-assistant [nact] import-assistant-wsp
94 import-folder-uri [nact] import-assistant-lfu
95 import-keep-choice [nact] import-mode-keep-last-choice
96 import-mode = NoImport [nact] import-preferred-mode
97 io-providers-order = [..] [nact] io-providers-write-order
98 iprefs-add-about-item = true [runtime] items-add-about-item
99 iprefs-alphabetical-order = ManualOrder [runtime] items-list-order-mode
100 iprefs-create-root-menu = false [runtime] items-create-root-menu
101 iprefs-level-zero = [my-first-na-menu,a1-mandatory2-action3,a-gconf-action]
102 [runtime] items-level-zero-order
103 iprefs-relabel-actions = false [nact] relabel-when-duplicate-action
104 iprefs-relabel-menus = false [nact] relabel-when-duplicate-menu
105 iprefs-relabel-profiles = false [nact] relabel-when-duplicate-profile
106 main-edit-toolbar = true [nact] main-toolbar-edit-display
107 main-file-toolbar = true [nact] main-toolbar-file-display
108 main-help-toolbar = true [nact] main-toolbar-help-display
109 main-paned = 211 [nact] main-paned-width
110 main-window = [319,95,901,533] [nact] main-window-size
111 preferences-editor = [548,218,497,392] [nact] preferences-wsp
112 schemes = [dav|WebDAV files,file|Local files,ftp|FTP files,sftp|SSH files,smb|Windows files]
113 [nact] scheme-default-list
115 User preferences for I/O providers are stored as /apps/nautilus-actions/io-providers/<provider_id>
116 keys. They are moved to [io-provider <provider_id>] group.
119 ----------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
120 read-at-startup readable
123 3. Sysadmin reserved mandatory keys
124 -----------------------------------
126 /apps/nautilus-actions/mandatory/
131 These keys are just ignored if they are not in the mandatory GConf pool, i.e.
132 if they happens to be eventually editable by the user.
134 If these keys are actually in the system mandatory GConf pool, they are renamed
135 in the following way:
138 ----------------------------------------- ------ --------------------------------------
139 /apps/nautilus-actions/mandatory/all/locked
140 [runtime] preferences-locked
141 [runtime] io-providers-locked
143 /apps/nautilus-actions/mandatory/na-desktop/locked <removed>
144 /apps/nautilus-actions/mandatory/na-gconf/locked <removed>
146 P. Wieser - Jan. 2011