gplugin/gplugin

Set a non-persistent settings backend in viewer

16 months ago, Elliott Sales de Andrade
a4ee5a7bbbe9
Set a non-persistent settings backend in viewer

We don't want test or example plugins to write to dconf or the registry just
when viewing them.

Testing Done:
Viewed a plugin with settings, and confirmed that nothing was saved to dconf.

Reviewed at https://reviews.imfreedom.org/r/2147/
There are a few notes about building on OSX.
First off, building has *ONLY* been tested against homebrew. If you want to
support fink or macports, please let me know and I will merge your pull
request.
## Lua
For the Lua loader to work, you need to install `lgi` from luarocks either
systemwide for lua 5.1 as `lgi` does not currently work with lua 5.4 which is
the default in homebrew.
To make this work, you'll need to install both `lua@5.1` and `luarocks` via
`brew install lua@5.1 luarocks`. Once those are installed, you'll need to
create `/usr/local/etc/luarocks/config-5.1.lua` with the following contents.
```
-- LuaRocks configuration
rocks_trees = {
{ name = "user", root = home .. "/.luarocks" };
{ name = "system", root = "/usr/local" };
}
lua_interpreter = "lua5.1";
variables = {
LUA_DIR = "/usr/local/opt/lua@5.1";
LUA_BINDIR = "/usr/local/opt/lua@5.1/bin";
CFLAGS = "-I/usr/local/opt/libffi/include/";
}
```
Once that is done, you can then finally install `lgi` with the following
command.
```
luarocks --lua-version=5.1 install lgi
```
## Python3
If you're using homebrew, you need to install `pygobject3`.