[GNC] Preferences reset

Geert Janssens geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Sat May 22 07:00:58 EDT 2021


I have looked into this some more and filed bug https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?
id=798194[1] with more details.

The proper fix would require changes affecting all users, not only flatpak users (changes to 
how we store our preferences in GSettings). That's probably out of proportion with the benefit 
we'd have from this.

Luckily there is a workaround that is fairly simple, involving two shell commands. They are 
detailed in the bug report.

Regards,

Geert

Op zaterdag 3 april 2021 22:52:31 CEST schreef John Ralls:
> I haven't noticed anything and so far everyone who's reported this uses the
> flatpak build. My guess for the most likely cause is that we upgraded the
> Gnome runtime and there's some change to GSettings in there.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> > On Apr 3, 2021, at 9:33 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > So your file history was gone too.  I wonder if there is a comparable
> > problem with Mac computers?
> > 
> > On Sat, Apr 3, 2021, 11:05 AM Mike <txtinman at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> Yeah, that's exactly what I mean. I forgot to add that when I clicked on
> >> the desktop icon to start GC it opened a new database with no entries as
> >> if
> >> I were starting GC from scratch. I had to find the file and start it from
> >> the file manager. I was worried that my data would be gone, but it was
> >> only
> >> my preferences that were gone.
> >> 
> >> Mike
> >> 
> >> On 4/3/21 9:49 AM, David Carlson wrote:
> >> 
> >> Do you mean that GnuCash reset your preferences for you without any
> >> action
> >> on your part?
> >> 
> >> That sounds like a bug to me.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On Sat, Apr 3, 2021, 8:38 AM Mike via gnucash-user <
> >> 
> >> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> >>> I just opened GC today and discovered that I had to reset all of my
> >>> preferences. None of the entries were affected. Very strange, I've not
> >>> had that happen before. I'm using GC Flatpak version 4.5 on Linux Mint
> >>> 20.1 for those who are interested.
> >>> 
> >>> Mike
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