Comment 3 for bug 774280

Didier,

I've had a little look, but I really don't know how this works - I know Python, but not gconf. I can confirm that the snippet of code that was returning a 'str' now seems to be returning a 'GConfValue'

I'm afraid I won't be able to debug this further, because:

1) I've found I can't stand Unity (no offence - each to his own etc, but the Ubuntu classic was serving me fine)
2) Running Unity has tended to change my non-Unity Compiz settings when I've tried it, and so I don't want to do any more experimenting.

I'm happy to execute some debugging commands if it will help, as long as don't mess up my existing settings, because I've had enough problems as it is.

Perhaps a simple "hasattr('get_string')" check would be a working, Pythonic solution until the issue is properly understood?

Thanks,

Luke