Sugar Labs

The GNOME GConf library, which was part of GTK+ 2, has or is ending support soon, and downstream distributions will cease packaging.

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/02/msg00169.html
• https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/ch34.html

Sugar only kept GConf compatibility for upgrades from older versions of Sugar that did not use Gio.Settings. That transition was long ago. We must now remove this compatibility support.

• port Browse, Read and Write activities from GConf to Gio.Settings,
• remove GConf from Sugar, Sugar Toolkit, and Browse, Read and Write activities,
• remove GConf from any other activities.

Most issues have not been created, as it is a waste of time to do so. As of 2020-02-25 there are 41 matches for the code pattern "import gconf" in org:sugarlabs. Not all of these need to be changed.

Repositories may not exist. Activity bundles may be found on activities.sugarlabs.org with no corresponding GitHub repository.

Activities may have been made obsolete by another activity. Care must be taken to assess if an activity is suitable for porting.

Pull requests may already exist but stalled by other problems.