[SOLVED]: tip of day dialog and migrate prefs problem

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Mon Jan 27 04:26:25 EST 2014


On Sunday 26 January 2014 21:02:53 Michael Carney wrote:
> Turns out I didn't have dconf installed, which is why I was having
> these problems.
I'm glad we figured that out.

> Looks like Fedora 20 is missing some package
> dependencies. What packages should require dconf?
> 
That's a good question. Gsettings is part of libgio which in turn is part of the glib2 package.

However gsettings is designed to be able to work with multiple backends. The dconf backend 
is only one of them. The gnome desktop uses this backend to store its preferences. So when 
you install the gnome desktop you will surely get dconf automatically.

Some searching in the rpm database shows that the following packages I have installed 
require dconf:
gnome-session
shotwell
virt-manager
evolution-data-server
ibus
ibus
imsettings-gsettings
gnome-boxes
gnome-color-manager

Some of them are ordinary applications just like gnucash. So probably we should make dconf a 
dependency on linux.

For completenenss I'll just add that this is not so for Windows and OS X. Both platforms have 
their own dedicated gsettings backend.

I have taken two additional actions for this issue:
1. I have added dconf as a runtime dependency in README.dependencies
2. I have created a bug report in RedHat's bugzilla for Fedora 20 [1]

Geert

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058218


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