compiz - Jun 2007 - Problem with new cube and scale with ini

I think I have a slight problem with the new hookable plugins
and the ini plugin.

I haven't looked into it too much, but the plugins use an option to
store their abi version.  This value is stored so that when the cube/scale
plugins are updated it will not be changed and things will not work.

Do we need some sort of flag to tell ini not to save these options?  I
assume that it is OK for gconf because the option is not stored
because it is not added to the schema.

The other option would be to get the cube plugin to set its options
when they change internally, but ideally these things shouldn't
be written to disk at all.

Regards
Mike

On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 11:44 +0100, Mike Dransfield
wrote:
> I think I have a slight problem with the new hookable plugins
> and the ini plugin.
> 
> I haven't looked into it too much, but the plugins use an option to
> store their abi version.  This value is stored so that when the cube/scale
> plugins are updated it will not be changed and things will not work.
I'm not sure I understand. In what way doesn't it work? The cube/scale
plugins should always be able to set the abi option properly,
independent of how options are stored.
> 
> Do we need some sort of flag to tell ini not to save these options?  I
> assume that it is OK for gconf because the option is not stored
> because it is not added to the schema.
There's a "read-only" metadata hint that should be sufficient for
this.
> 
> The other option would be to get the cube plugin to set its options
> when they change internally, but ideally these things shouldn't
> be written to disk at all.
-David