Will gsettings eventually be able to modify lists?

[Matthias Clasen]

On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 08:48 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> It would be nice to use gsettings to add or remove an item from the
> favorite-apps key without having to read the old list, parse it with
> something, pass a modified list back to gsettings to replace the old
> value.
> 
> Is there any plan for gsettings to get a feature to do this in one step?

No immediate plan, no. I wouldn't necessarily reject a patch, but it is
a little hard to know where to stop, once you start down that route...
GSettings lets you store arbitrary variants.