[GNC] Lost all settings after Flatpak update

[Geert Janssens]

>From reading the reports here I believe the settings that got lost you are those stored in 
GSettings. Those are not in the configuration directories you  can symlink. On linux (and 
hence flatpak) GSettings uses dconf as its backend.

As John already suggested it looks like something has changed with the switch to the new 
3.38 version of the gnome sdk our flatpak depends on. At this point it's not clear to me yet 
whether that's a bug or a deliberate change.

For the time being you can revert to version 4.4 of the gnucash flatpak by running (all in a 
single line)
flatpak update --commit 
298cf1b5b77a15d7afda8a58721b075ec8ec0c59f4b16e1e19db98e37c097b07 
org.gnucash.GnuCash

If you are on a system that automatically updates flatpaks, you'll also have to temporarily 
stop it from doing that. With flatpak (the tool) version 1.5 you can run these commands:
flatpak mask --user org.gnucash.GnuCash
flatpak mask --system org.gnucash.GnuCash

When this issue will be fixed in the future the updates can be unblocked with
flatpak mask --remove --user org.gnucash.GnuCash
flatpak mask --remove --system org.gnucash.GnuCash

Regards,

Geert

Op zondag 4 april 2021 18:32:15 CEST schreef Tommy Trussell:
> I should also say, I created symlinks so that my flatpak gnucash
> installations on different systems share the same settings folder as a
> distribution installed version, were I to revert to it. SO the flatpak
> version is doing something completely different, or it blew away the old
> settings or something, and I haven't dug around to find out what happened.
> 
> On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 11:29 AM Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
> 
> wrote:
> > And just to pile on, I noticed the same in Flatpak running on Ubuntu
> > 20.04. This MAY have been after a "secondary" Flatpak update (?). It still
> > says GnuCash 4.5 Flatpak inside the application but when you open a
> > terminal and run flatpak list I believe it says GnuCash 4.5+.
> > 
> > I was quite surprised because I have run GnuCash for many years now and
> > this may be the first time I have had to re-establish register settings
> > for
> > my older books. It's been long enough I did not recall what the defaults
> > looked like. Apparently I made some choices years ago and haven't looked
> > back in a long time.
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 5:10 PM Guille Lopez <willelopz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> I can confirm that I observed the same behavior, also with Flatpak in
> >> Debian bullseye.
> >> 
> >> It did not mean a big deal for me because I could reapply my settings
> >> quickly, but I confirm the issue.
> >> 
> >> Guille
> >> 
> >> On 01/04/2021 16:40, km22 wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> > 
> >> > I am a Debian user and install Gnucash using Flatpak. I think Flatpak
> >> > is
> >> > setup to update automatically and the latest version of Gnucash seems
> >> > to
> >> > have been installed as of March 28th.
> >> > 
> >> > When I started Gnucash I was presented with the typical popup tips and
> >> > dialogs to set up a new user file from scratch.  The system did not
> >> > remember any of my recently used files.  When I opened a recent gnucash
> >> > file it loaded but all my settings are gone. For instance my tabs are
> >> > all horizontal at the top of the screen rather than vertically to the
> >> > left.
> >> > 
> >> > Do you know whether it is normal for Flatpak updates to case user
> >> > settings to be lost?  Is there a way to restore my previous settings?
> >> > 
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > 
> >> > Ken
> >> > 
> >> >