Missing gconf schema

IIRC gconf schema requires to declare all keys which is not possible because Psensor is storing the settings of each sensor under /app/psensor/sensors/[SENSOR_UID]/*.
That's also the reason why gsettings is to used (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622126).

Except if I miss some point about gconf schema, I am afraid that this issue will never be 'fixed'.

I'm not sure what the Debian or Ubuntu policy is regarding gconf schemas. I think that it should only need to include keys that are used when it is installed. Since it doesn't have any sensors defined until it is executed, and they are system-specific, I don't see why you would need to worry about including the sensor entries in the schema.

I have started creating the schema, see http://wpitchoune.net/svnpub/psensor/trunk/src/psensor.schemas

I have commited debian and autotools files for the schema installation in the SVN trunk. The .deb appears to correctly install and desinstall the schema. I have only do tests with gconf-editor, I don't really know how to "configure system-wide defaults with gconftool/gsettings".

You can give it a try by using the daily ppa:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:jfi/psensor-daily-trunk
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install psensor

Binaries should be available in a couple of hours (psensor - 0.7.0.0-0~558~quantal1)

Thanks. I'll give it a try in a day or two.

Example of setting system defaults for Gnome Terminal to increase the number of scrollback lines (Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx):

gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \
--apply-schema /usr/share/gconf/schemas/gnome-terminal.schemas \
/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/scrollback_lines

gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \
--set --type=int /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/scrollback_lines 2048

This bug was fixed in the package psensor - 0.7.0.3-1ubuntu1

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psensor (0.7.0.3-1ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable, remaining Ubuntu changes:
   - Build depend on nvidia-settings build-dep on i386 and amd64.
   - Build depend on libunity-dev and libappindicator3-dev for Unity support.

psensor (0.7.0.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
      + added gconf schema. (LP: #1026807)
      + fixed systray and application indicator visible at the
        same time. (LP: #971098)
      + fixed wrong background color, get the background color of
        the window and not the canvas widget. (LP: #973122)
      + removed hicolor/48x48/psensor_hot.png. (LP: #1029065)
      + added degree sign for celcius. (LP: #1021900)
      + fixed hide window on startup for gnome-shell. (Closes: #676361)
  * debian/control
      + added builddep to libatasmart-dev.
      + switched to debhelper 9.
  * debian/psensor.install
      + added gconf schema.
  * debian/rules
      + set GCONF_DISABLE_MAKEFILE_SCHEMA_INSTALL to 1 to avoid gconf
        schema installation during package build.
  * debian/compat
      + switched to debhelper 9, fixes hardening-no-relro and
        hardening-no-fortify-functions lintian warnings.
 -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <email address hidden> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:04:44 -0500