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      type="topic"

      id="tech-gsettings">

  <info>

    <link type="guide" xref="tech" group="gsettings"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.0" date="2013-01-30" status="candidate"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">

      <name>Federico Mena Quintero</name>

      <email its:translate="no">federico@gnome.org</email>

      <years>2013</years>

    </credit>

    <include href="cc-by-sa-3-0.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>

    <desc>Configuration storage for application preferences</desc>

  </info>

<title>GSettings</title>

  
GSettings is the part of <link xref="tech-glib">GLib</link> that allows

  applications to save their configuration settings and user's preferences in a

  standard way.

    An application that uses GSettings defines a schema of

    configuration keys.  The schema for each key contains the key's name, a

    human-readable description of what the key is for, a type for the key

    (string, integer, etc.), and a default value.

    GSettings uses the operating system's storage for configuration data.  On

    GNU systems this is DConf; on Windows it is the Registry, and on Mac OS it

    is the NextStep property list mechanism.

    GSettings lets you monitor changes in keys' values, so your application can

    respond dynamically to global changes in configuration.  For example, all

    applications that display clocks can respond to a global setting for

    12-hour/24-hour display immediately, without having to restart.

  <list style="compact">

    <item>
<link href="http://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GSettings.html">GSettings Reference Manual</link>
</item>

</list>

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