hi

Hi

How is this room superuser

@AmithKK not sure

i think coz my chat profile is SU

14 Homo Sapien English

Bah.

You don't freak out.

lol

so yeah

yeah

Add me as an admin :D

:P

let's do it

so what do we do here?

we are going to add a new feature to Unity.

cool.

anyone thought of what the feature will be?

actually, it was already there. we are going to readd it

I have some time to spare today. lets put it to use.

the resetting the config

when was it removed?

unity --reset you mean, right?

it was removed in quantal

Yeah

@Mahesh yeah

It's time

And the power goes down

Screw this

you are going off @AmithKK?

wait a few minutes

:/

:\

hmm...

sigh

you are on 12.10 @Mahesh?

nopsey.

:(

will you?

I can vm it in no time.

we need to add a groundbreaking feature and you need to be on this

flattered, should i be? :D :P

okay. will zsync it now.

first of all, we need to figure out to reset this darn settings

@Mahesh come over faster

you want me to do a bare-metal or vm works just fine?

up to you

does 12.10 work in vm?

it should.

try then

i was told it is sluggish like crap

waiting....

for?

zsync to finish

zsync

I have low bandwidth quota buddy. so I save everything i can

ouch

Oh noes...

hm?

it makes no difference. it saved just 100 mb.

shucks

I guess I'm near my quota limit..

:(

:(

/hate this

/me too

what do we do now?

Hello

So

done downloading?

@jokerdino What?

we figure a way to solve this sourceforge.net/projects/linuxcommand/files/TLCL/09.12/…

@jokerdino What?

what???

I have a copy of TLCL.

why do we need that?

oops

omg

i suck so much

yup.

ok

we collaborate on the code?

@Mahesh i am so sorry

@AmithKK yeah \o/

I'll setup etherpad on amithkk.com

ok.

need a private git server?

I'm setting up a private git repo on bitbucket.

okay

email ids please...

but i can't access git :(

my network..

@Mahesh amithkumaran@gmail.com

@jokerdino You can only access port 80, correct?

yeah

let's get the code working.

i can reset it from dconf-editor but not from terminal

ooops

@jokerdino not even on http?

i can use it!

@Mahesh that yes

okay. same here.

Making Node.js here

wah, who is on 12.10?

not me. :(

@dino should i invite you at the ubuntu address?

yeah

let me look up the source and see what we are trying to do.

we need to reset teh values

i can't do it by gsettings

but i can using dcof

We're resetting the values

wait

dconf has the same things as gconf right?

i dont know

they differ in formats.

dconf, I guess I can.

you make a settings dump, and reuse it.

hm?

@Mahesh Nah

@AmithKK why so?

we need something that anyone can use without a backup

essentially, we'll have to reset the values, right?

yeah

so lets provide that sane backup.

wrapped up in a tiny python script that does the magic.

why complicate lives?

yes but goddamn hippie i can't reset the values

we just need a copy of sane settings to be able to reset.

you mean the default settings?

github.com/aericson/tinydconf

Yeah

create a new user account, login once, and do dconf dump / >dconfdump

whatev guys

dirty way, invoke dconf from python.

better way, contribute to that module.

helloooes!

hi

get starting

 rm ~/.config/dconf/user

Does this work @jokerdino

that also kills other settings

not just unity

okay. to do list.

figure out what keys have to be reset.

this one

?

gsettings list-relocatable-schemas | grep compiz
org.compiz.session
org.compiz.scaleaddon
org.compiz.core
org.compiz.clone
org.compiz.ring
org.compiz.scale
org.compiz.composite
org.compiz.screenshot
org.compiz.mblur
org.compiz.workarounds
org.compiz.animation
org.compiz.shift
org.compiz.winrules
org.compiz.opengl
org.compiz.water
org.compiz.fade
org.compiz.mousepoll
org.compiz.gnomecompat
org.compiz.grid
org.compiz.shelf
org.compiz.unitydialog
org.compiz.opacify
org.compiz.obs
org.compiz.cube
org.compiz.annotate

> Didrocks told me there's no easy way to do this in 12.10, however he gave me some information to figure it out, the ideal answer will script up something like this: "gsettings list-relocatable-schemas | grep compiz", then note down the relocatable schemas then gsettings reset-recursively <each schema from the list above>:/org/compiz/profiles/unity Note that the dconf reset command isn't enough.

starring for easy reference.

okay

Ok, I have code for this

sure?

wait..

gsettings operates on gconf right?

no

only on dconf iirc

#!/usr/bin/python
import subprocess
out, err = subprocess.Popen('gsettings list-relocatable-schemas | grep compiz',shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()
out = out.splitlines()
for x in out:
	n="gsettings reset-recursively "+x+":/org/compiz/profiles/unity/"
	subprocess.Popen(n,shell=True)

it doesn't work

Yeah

that's the problem

gsettings reset-recursively org.compiz.unityshell:/org/compiz/profiles/unity/

the command does nothing

whoa.. wait.

are we resetting things the right way?

no idea

so gsettings is the higher level interface.

gconf/dconf are the low level storage backends.

i guess so

i've just confirmed.

developer.gnome.org/gio/2.32/GSettings.html

neat

okay, now lets see why reset doesn't work.

good idea

i can reset it using dconf but not gsettings

the problem is, we need to supply a schema.

it doesn't have a schema

it must have a base schema, right?

no schema, nada

end of story, unless we figure out how to use gsettings without using a schema.

or we create those? :D

patch unity with schemaas

wait...

they are schemas.

now whats the difference between non relocatable ones and relocatable ones?

one can move and the other cant?

Ok, I'll be back in 15 minutes

okay, try amith's python script omitting the path.

omit what?

#!/usr/bin/python
import subprocess
out, err = subprocess.Popen('gsettings list-relocatable-schemas | grep compiz',shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()
out = out.splitlines()
for x in out:
	n="gsettings reset-recursively "+x
	subprocess.Popen(n,shell=True)

buggy

buggy as in?

./python.py
./python.py: line 5: syntax error near unexpected token `('
./python.py: line 5: `out, err = subprocess.Popen('gsettings list-relocatable-schemas | grep compiz',shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()'

extra bracket

where on earth?

oh noes...

must be formatting prob. recheck it.

nope

i cant figure

amith's copy runs, right?

never miid

org.compiz.core' is relocatable (path must be specified)
Schema 'org.compiz.scaleaddon' is relocatable (path must be specified)
Schema 'org.compiz.ring' is relocatable (path must be specified)

that. is. great.

\o/

I'm back

wb

okay, dconf doesn't care about schemas.

and gsettings does.

yeah

anyone figured out if dconf even recognises scemas?

wanna join ubuntu-unity?

next step: figure out who tells gsettings about schemas.

@jokerdino ?

in irc

#!/usr/bin/python
import subprocess
out, err = subprocess.Popen('gsettings list-relocatable-schemas | grep compiz',shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()
out = out.splitlines()
for x in out:
	n="gsettings reset-recursively "+x+" :/org/compiz/profiles/unity/"
	subprocess.Popen(n,shell=True)

Hey, @jokerdino try that

okay

I'll have to use webchat. okay, coming in..

nope

@amith no workie

hmm

ok

so, its not spacing

nope.

its the scema and paths.

anyone knows how gsettings recognises schemas?

me nada

developer.gnome.org/gio/2.32/GSettings.html

YAY!!!

found it.

yay

so, we list schemas as we did,

then list the keys in those schemas,

and then run a reset on all keys.

shall we try this?

sure. @amith get to coding

@AmithKK code it up, buddy.

lolz.

Found what?

ok, we have key listing too?

gsettings list-keys SCHEMA [:PATH]

This is easy

no space i guess. check it.

code pwease?

Wait a second

does the += operator work in python?

yup.

So, it works on lists too?

yup, it should.

just checked. it works.

good sirs

Wow

this could take work

;O

gsettings reset actually needs us to specify the schema,path and key

we need something like a two dimensional array

which means?

like

we are dead

why are we dead?

[key1:schema1,key2:schema2]

go ahead with a list of lists.

or a dictionary of lists.

wait.. I can do that?

Wow

yes.

Yo dawg

XD

arbitrary nesting possible.

xDDD

/me going for dinner. should be back soon.

@Mahesh Example code of lists of lists please

or wait

we can have two parallel lists

@amith, once you get this done, i'll help you pull it into unity

This is like inception

haha

#!/usr/bin/python
import subprocess
out, err = subprocess.Popen('gsettings list-relocatable-schemas | grep compiz',shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()
out = out.splitlines()
out2,err2,schemalist=[],[],[]
for x in out:
	n="gsettings list keys "+x+":/org/compiz/profiles/unity/"
	out2, err2 += subprocess.Popen(n,shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()
	schemalist.append(x)

out2=out2.splitlines()
print out2
print schemalist

@jokerdino output please

Try taking out the comma and err2

Commands:
  help                      Show this information
  list-schemas              List installed schemas
  list-relocatable-schemas  List relocatable schemas
  list-keys                 List keys in a schema
  list-children             List children of a schema
  list-recursively          List keys and values, recursively
  range                     Queries the range of a key
  get                       Get the value of a key
  set                       Set the value of a key
  reset                     Reset the value of a key

#!/usr/bin/python
import subprocess
out, err = subprocess.Popen('gsettings list-relocatable-schemas | grep compiz',shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()
out = out.splitlines()
schemalist=[]
out2,err2="",""
for x in out:
	n="gsettings list keys "+x+":/org/compiz/profiles/unity/"
	out2, err2 += subprocess.Popen(n,shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()
	schemalist.append(x)

out2=out2.splitlines()
print out2
print schemalist

Now try it out