Next questions (fuller information)

[Mike or Penny Novack]

Josh Sled wrote:

>Bastiaan Veelo <Bastiaan.N.Veelo at ntnu.no> writes:
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>>I have not been following this thread, but gconf is to the Gnome desktop 
>>what the registry is to MS Windows. Gconf does not run on Windows.
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>That's incorrect, as is the implication that we use the Windows registry.
>We use gconf on Windows in the same way as on 'nix or OS X.
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I assumed that. Nobody sane has been writing programs that modify the 
programs to change behavior for decades. In other words, I assumed that 
the app (in changing setting and preferences) was going to be storing 
that as data (which the app would then read and act accordingly).

OK --- I can see a directory ( named .gconf)  presumably used for that 
purpose and a suggestively named file saved_state in it. But that file 
is empty, apparently nothing saved there. For all I know there is a 
called subtask ALSO named gconf which gets called when you change 
settings and preferences to do the work (store the change) but about 
that I know nothing.

And probably couldn't look without guidance. In spite of the fact that I 
am running this under XP not really an XP person. Not really "up" on ANY 
operating system for PCs though I have a reasonable idea how the typical 
'nix works and am reasonably at home in the bash shell (the operating 
system I have worked in most is (in it's current incarnation) MVS-XA 
though I go back to late MVT days -- thank the gods not all the way back 
to MFT -- and if you don't recognize these 'cause it's IMB mainframe 
OS). Really an "applications" person anyway.

OK --- before going any farther probably best to confirm something (to 
rule possible causes out).

Anybody out there using the new July 14th 2.2.0 stable under Windows XP? 
You are able to save changes to settings and preferences? (for example, 
you aren't still stuck coming up with the "welcome" dialog). If somebody 
says "yes", then we know nothing wrong with the release itself. If you 
say yes, include information about how you installed (under what sort of 
log in) and how you run (under what sort of log in --- I ask because all 
to many users of XP don't bother with the added security of doing 
ordinary work logged in WITHOUT administrator privileges).

After all, only been a few days so POSSIBLY I'm the first person to be 
reporting "having a problem" (especially if there are very few people 
trying to run this new baby under Windows)

Michael

PS -- OTHERWISE the evaluation is going quite well. I have a parallel of 
the paper books up to current and everything checks out. While the 
reports aren't exactly what I would want, export as HTML worked fine and 
so even if customization proves too difficult, the desired report 
formats could be produced by combining and editing the HTML files with 
an HTML editor. No "show stoppers" so far.