patches and double druids

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Dec 1 14:55:06 EST 2004


Neil Williams <linux at codehelp.co.uk> writes:

>> ???  Isn't there an actual bug in the code?  How did nautilus "solve
>> the problem"?
>
> I'd assume it was to do with bad window manager config - missing config. 
> Without nautilus, Gnome tried to use Konqueror for normal file system 
> browsing so maybe handling the dual druid windows without nautilus caused 
> some incompatibility with konq in Gnome. I'll try to make sure.

Gnucash still shouldn't error out if there's a bad WM config.

>> I'm not convinced that schema validation would work for gnucash files.
>
> I wouldn't use it for those. It would be one of the tests - try to validate 
> the file against each QSF schema then fallback to the existing GnuCash tests 
> (probably in the reverse order though, use the existing tests first, then if 
> those fail, try to validate to determine if it's QSF.)

Ok.

-derek

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