Hello all,
In an effort to make
speech-dispatcher a bit more approachable by regular end users I'd like
to make a speech kcm (kde configuration module) that will appear in
kde's system settings application and will be launchable from other
configuration screens like okular's tts settings. So in order to
configure speech-dispatcher with a gui I need a way to figure out which
speech-dispatcher modules are installed (for the user to select which to
be their default). Which sound systems are available, etc. I can use
the dotconf library to get the current configuration and possible
modules etc. but I'm not seeing any way to use dotconf to actually
modify the .conf files. Am I missing something obvious?
An
alternate approach that I started years ago and should get back to at
some point is to convert speech-dispatcher and it's modules and audio
system to use gsettings instead of .conf files for configuration. That
way we could use the gsettings manipulation functionality in glib to get
and set speech-dispatcher configuration. I'd rather avoid this in the
short term, but I think it's a good idea in the long term. It will
require some migration code to make sure user's .conf files get migrated
to the gsettings, but once done I think it will be easier to make these
kind of gui configurations.
thoughts?