Developer guideSettings API

Reading system settings

Read appearance, accent and locale settings and react to changes over D-Bus.

System settings are exposed through the org.abstractos.Settings1 D-Bus interface and the standard Settings portal for sandboxed apps.

Keys

Key	Type	Example
`appearance.color-scheme`	string	`"light"`
`appearance.accent`	string	`"blue"`
`display.text-scale`	double	`1.25`
`shell.form-factor`	string	`"tablet"`

let settings = abstract_kit::Settings::default();
let scheme = settings.string("appearance.color-scheme");
settings.connect_changed(Some("appearance.color-scheme"), |s, key| {
    println!("changed: {}", s.string(key));
});

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