[GNC-dev] Ideas for account type-ahead modification

[Jean Laroche]

org.gnucash.gnucash.plist in fact (no G)
Well, I can confirm that despite all my efforts, my pref is absent from 
that file. Does this need to be removed for a pref to be added? (I'm 
guessing not). I'm at a loss to find out what's going on...


On 3/12/20 3:52 PM, John Ralls wrote:
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>> On Mar 12, 2020, at 3:37 PM, Jean Laroche <ripngo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> you saw
>>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Adding_Preferences?
>>
>> Well, it looks like this is out of date.
>> For example src/gnome-utils/gtkbuilder/dialog-preferences.glade no longer exists.
>> I can only see:
>> ./gnucash/gtkbuilder/dialog-preferences.glade
>> ./share/gnucash/gtkbuilder/dialog-preferences.glade
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>> Following the instructions as best as I could, I'm still unable to make it work. I'm not sure what to do next. I'm replicating exactly what is done for the "enter-moves-to-end" preference, yet the pref does not work.
>> Where is the actual preference file located? (i.e., where gnucash saves its pref for the next time it opens). I haven't been able to locate it, despite the indications found in the wiki...
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> Yes, it's a bit out of date. The source file is gnucash-git/gnucash/gtkbuilder/dialog-preferences.glade and it's moved to build_dir/share/gnucash/gtkbuilder/dialog-preferences.glade by make/ninja and installed in $PREFIX/share/gnucash/gtkbuilder/dialog-preferences.glade.
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> On MacOS application preferences are written to plists in ~/Library/Preferences. Ours is named org.gnucash.Gnucash.plist.
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> Regards,
> John Ralls
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