AUDIT: r17535 - gnucash/trunk/src/gnome-utils - In price and commodity tree views, restore gconf settings after initialization.

[Charles Day]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Andreas Köhler <andi5.py at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi Charles,
>
> On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 00:17 -0400, Andreas Köhler wrote:
> > Author: andi5
> > New Revision: 17535
> > Trac: http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/17535
> > Log:
> > In price and commodity tree views, restore gconf settings after
> initialization.
> >
> > Previously, gconf settings like sort column and order for price and
> commodity
> > dialogs were read in while creating the main tree view objects
> themselves,
> > i.e. before a model has been set.  In this early stage of initialization,
> these
> > properties cannot always be set and are ignored subsequently.
> >
> > Instead, apply the properties after the view has been built and set
> default
> > sorting column only if no column has been found in gconf.
> >
> > BP
>
> I noticed this when looking at r17439 and r17468.  If you agree with my
> findings and everything works for you, I would backport these three
> commits together.  Either all or none of them ;-)
>

Looks like a good idea to me. Unfortunately I may not be unable to do any
testing or development for a few days because my graphics card has suddenly
decided to begin dying. I have ordered a new one, but for now my system is
very unstable (and frequently rather unreadable.)


>
> Ciao,
> -- andi5
>
>
> PS: If you have not already done so, I would suggest you to build
> gconf-editor for Windows.  It works perfectly (just as Glade-3, but that
> is a topic I will revive later) and can be quite helpful sometimes.  At
> least for non-automated tasks it is easier to handle than
> gconftool-2 :-)
>
Cheers,
Charles