Remove dependency on gconf2

[dimitry-ishenko]

What

Replace gconf2 with dconf.

Why

gconf2 is deprecated.

From wikipedia:

GConf was a system used by the GNOME desktop environment for storing configuration settings for the desktop and applications. It is similar to the Windows Registry.

It was deprecated as part of the GNOME 3 transition. Migration to its replacement, GSettings and dconf, is ongoing.

From https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gconf:

How

By modifying the code to use dconf instead of gconf2?... Yep.

[dimitry-ishenko]

FWIW it seems whatever the thing that Simplenote is built on, which used to require gconf2, no longer needs it.

In other words, I was able to install both Simplenote-1.21.1 and Simplenote-2.21.0 (one at a time) with:

dpkg -i Simplenote-linux-...-amd64.deb

and they both worked fine without gconf2 being installed on my system.

Not sure if whatever that thing was that needed it (electron, or chromium, or whichever), has since switched to dconf or just altogether doesn't need it anymore.

[codebykat]

Thanks, yeah, looks like Electron has removed the dependency.

[dimitry-ishenko]

When was this completed? Latest Linux version (2.21.0) still depends on gconf2.