David King
davidk@gnome.org 2013
Flexible user configuration system.

# Settings management

High-level access for application settings

Easily bind settings to UI elements

Flexible overrides for packagers and system administrators

Store user settings and make your application respond to them automatically with GSettings. Easily override settings defaults as a system administrator. Store a wide variety of data, such as integers and arrays of strings, with ease.

# What can you do?

Use the GSettings API of GIO to read and write application settings. GSettings transparently uses the platform configuration database so that platform-specific configuration tools can be used. Make UI controls update according to settings with a single function.

# Real-world examples

Nearly all GNOME applications use GSettings.

Dconf editor is the GUI tool for managing preferences stored in the dconf database with GSettings.

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