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[David Ryder]

On 05/02/14 15:08, Geert Janssens wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 February 2014 14:55:36 David Ryder wrote:
>> On 05/02/14 14:41, Geert Janssens wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 05 February 2014 14:31:27 David Ryder wrote:
>>>>      Hi
>>>>      Ubuntu
>>>>      GnuCash 2.6+
>>>>      Prior to 2.6, I could increase the history of files shown by
>>>>      ConfigEditor>Apps>gnucash and changing the value of History.
>>>>      Alas, since 2.6, this is no longer the case.
>>>>      Please - is there somewhere I can change this? (I need 7)
>>>>      IMHO, removing these settings in Configuration Editor is a
>>>>
>>>> significant loss.
>>>>
>>>>      Many thanks,
>>>>      David
>>> That preference is now stored in gsettings. On linux gsettings
>>> stores
>>> its data in dconf. You can use dconf-editor to manipulate this.
>>>
>>> The path to look for now is org>gnucash, but the rest should be
>>> similar.
>>>
>>> Hope that helps,
>>>
>>> Geert
>> Thanks !
>> May I ask why it was moved? Configuration Editor is not being phased
>> out AFAIK.
>> David
> Configuration Editor is a graphical front end to GConf. GConf is
> deprecated by Gnome in favour of GSettings. I don't know what Ubuntu
> chose as preferences backend for Unity so I can't comment there.
>
> Add to this that GConf was acting up badly on both Windows and OS X and
> suddenly the option to switch to GSettings makes a lot of sense.
>
> Geert
>
Understood - thanks for the explanation. Didn't know about the problems 
with Windows an OS X - just curious.
David