[GNC] Preferences reset problem?

[Geert Janssens]

Op donderdag 1 juli 2021 05:19:58 CEST schreef John Ralls:
> > On Jun 30, 2021, at 2:52 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> > wrote:> 
> > Op dinsdag 29 juni 2021 22:22:36 CEST schreef incoming-gnucash at sabot.com:
> >> After gnucash 4.5 was announced, I tested upgrading to it on a
> >> standalone test machine (running flatpak on ubuntu 20.04), and
> >> 
> >> I encountered the issue later described here:
> >>  https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798194
> >> 
> >> where all my gnucash settings were lost.  On that same test machine, I
> >> tried downgrading to 4.4, but my settings were still gone.  This
> >> seemed kind of scary, so I put off upgrading my real machine pending a
> >> fix.
> >> 
> >> I see that the bug report linked to above includes some manual
> >> migration steps to export/re-import settings as a workaround, so I
> >> plan to just go ahead and try that (and I will go direct from 4.4 to
> >> 4.6, skipping 4.5).  But I thought I'd check in to make sure that
> >> there was no other pending/better way or automatic approach to this,
> >> or is the manual workaround the way to go?
> > 
> > So far there's no better workaround. You can either manually set your
> > preferences again or use the command provided in the bug report.
> > 
> > The short version of the issue is that a flatpak install of gnucash is as
> > if you install gnucash on a different machine, completely isolated from
> > your normal environment. There used to be a convenience to share
> > preferences between your normal environment and that "virtual" flatpak
> > machine. That convenience was dropped recently by the flatpak developers
> > (well, the gnome runtime developers really). Instead they provide a means
> > to automatically import settings from your main environment to the
> > flatpak "virtual" machine, but for historical reasons this can't work
> > with gnucash. So as for the convenience of having your preferences
> > magically available in the flatpak environment we're stuck between a rock
> > and a hard place unfortunately.> 
> >> If this issue affects all flatpak users, perhaps the release notes
> >> should reference the preferences issue and describe or link to the
> >> appropriate workaround?
> > 
> > That's a reasonable idea. I hope someone will do so.
> 
> Geert,
> 
> Can you elaborate on the historical reasons on
> https://github.com/flathub/org.gnucash.GnuCash/pull/43?
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls

Did so now.

Geert