GSettings is awesome, no doubt about it. Another uncommon thing we need in Builder are “layered settings”. We may have user “global settings” which are different than configured “project settings”.
In comes in the form of a wonderfully named EggSettingsSandwich. It let’s you stack GSettings atop one another, and read from the highest priority layer with modifications. Change notification works by tracking underlying changes and generating a “compiled” state using a memory-backed GSettings.
Your layer cake can be arbitrarily deep. We use g_settings_get_user_value() to determine if the value has changed at that layer.