libgconf2-ruby and libglade2-ruby are deprecated

[Siegfried Gevatter]

Hi,

libgconf2-ruby and libglade2-ruby are deprecate and will be dropped from Debian soon.

It'd be appreciated if you could update screenruler to no longer use those packages.

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

I've started working on a fix in lp:~rainct/screenruler/screenruler-gtk3, but since it's taking longer than I liked and I don't even know Ruby, I'd better leave this for you.

[Ian McIntosh (ian-mcintosh)]

I just committed revision 38, version 0.9.5, which moves from GladeXML to Gtk::Builder.

I'm not yet clear what's going on with GConf, is it deprecated? What should I be using?

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

2011/11/15 Ian McIntosh <email address hidden>:
> I just committed revision 38, version 0.9.5, which moves from GladeXML
> to Gtk::Builder.

Awesome!

> I'm not yet clear what's going on with GConf, is it deprecated?  What
> should I be using?

Yeah, it's been replaced with GSettings.

[Ian McIntosh (ian-mcintosh)]

http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/1976365#1007076 says:
"GSettings is included in GIO but Ruby/GIO2 doesn't support it yet. :< (We need help for it.)"

Perhaps I should convert settings to a file in ~/.screenruler ?

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

2011/11/15 Ian McIntosh <email address hidden>:
> Perhaps I should convert settings to a file in ~/.screenruler ?

Sounds good to me, but if you do so please place it in the XDG
configuration directory instead of ~/. The XDG config directori is
~/.config by default and can be overriden defining a XDG_CONFIG_HOME
environment variable (see
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
for details).

[Ian McIntosh (ian-mcintosh)]

Revision 41, app version 0.9.6 drops GConf dependency and uses a custom YAML file for settings. (Current GConf settings are lost, unfortunately.)

I'd appreciate testing and feedback.

Siegfried, if this revision works, can we get this back in the debian repos?

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

Hi,

I've just updated the Debian package. I'll look into getting it back into Ubuntu too.