[GNC] Cannot change preferences -- see bug 555187?

Ken Heard kenslists at teksavvy.com
Thu Aug 23 10:00:24 EDT 2018


On 2018-08-18 13:38, Geert Janssens wrote:
> Op zaterdag 18 augustus 2018 16:34:14 CEST schreef Ken Heard:
>> Last evening I was thinking of filing a bug report for my problem.  In
>> the process I found a previous bug report 555187 dealing with the same
>> one (1).  This bug was originally filed on 2008-10-16, but the last
>> comment on it by André Klapper was filed on 2018-08-17 13:58:19 UTC --
>> yesterday!
>>
> That bug is about GConf, which was used for preferences before we switched to
> dconf. GConf and dconf are completely different tools and your problem is with
> dconf so this bug is irrelevant here.
> 
> The only thing André added yesterday was a message indicating that the (old)
> GConf tool should be considered dead and burried. Which is fine because
> gnucash has not been using it since version 2.6.0.

Does the foregoing mean that directory ~/.gconf can be safely deleted? 
The most recent dates of the files in its subdirecties date from 2014 or 
earlier.

Regards, Ken



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