How to manage application profiles with GSettings ?

[cedlemo <cedlemo@xxxxxxx>]

I have a little application with settings that are saved with GSettings 
in the DConf backend. Now I want to be able to manage profiles, ie: a 
list of different settings that users can save, choose, edit or delete. 
I looked at some sources of well known applications in order to see how 
it is done and it seems that everything is done with GSettings:

For example in gnome-terminal :

https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-terminal/blob/master/src/org.gnome.Terminal.gschema.xml#L97

they define a SettingsList base schema :

<schema id="org.gnome.Terminal.SettingsList">
    <key name="list" type="as">
      <default>[]</default>
    </key>
    <key name="default" type="s">
      <default>''</default>
    </key>
  </schema>


then a Profiles list schema:

<schema id="org.gnome.Terminal.ProfilesList"
          extends="org.gnome.Terminal.SettingsList"
          path="/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/">
    <override 
name="list">['b1dcc9dd-5262-4d8d-a863-c897e6d979b9']</override>
    <override 
name="default">'b1dcc9dd-5262-4d8d-a863-c897e6d979b9'</override>
  </schema>


then they define a terminal profile schema that describe all the 
settings of a profile. Can someone explain me how does it work and if 
there is another way to manage a list of profiles?


Regards


Cédric Le Moigne

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