Pref walking

[Gary Kramlich]

Sean Egan wrote:

<snip>

> I think the names of the preferences alone aren't generally useful.
> Maybe it would be better to have it return the xmlnode of the pref?
> And then have some prefs API to return fields from xmlnode? Perhaps
> using GValue?
> 
> Although, I have no objection to the function as described, either.
> 
> -s.

Funny, I asked about this years ago and was shut down.  Aside from that, 
we can't return the xmlnode, since that's only used for loading and 
saving (unless this has changed since I last looked).  But we have 
PurplePreferences which we shouldn't be allowing direct access to since 
anyone could then change them and the changed signal would never be 
emitted for it.

-- 
Gary Kramlich <grim at reaperworld.com>