[GNC] Changes in gnucash 4 vs 3

Fri Mar 11 15:12:06 EST 2022

GSettings is something with which I'm not really familiar, but here is 
the situation.

On the 21.10 installation, where compiled gnucash 4.9 works as expected,

$ gsettings  list-schemas | grep -i gnucash
org.gnucash.dialogs.account
org.gnucash.dialogs.sxs.since-last-run
...

There are 68 of these entries, none of them beginning with 
org.gnucash.GnuCash. Confusingly (at least to me), there *is* an 
org.gnucash.GnuCash tree in dconf-editor.

Then, on the 22.04 installation, where gnucash 4.9 does *not* work as 
expected, the above gsettings command outputs the same schemas, but also 
another matching each one in the org.gnucash.GnuCash tree, e.g.,

org.gnucash.GnuCash.dialogs.account
org.gnucash.GnuCash.dialogs.sxs.since-last-run
...

There are 136 of these org.gnucash and org.gnucash.GnuCash schemas on 
the 22.04 machine.

I hope some sense can be made of this.

On 3/11/22 12:45, john wrote:
> Sorry, I understood that you had built 4.9 on Ubuntu 21.10 and that on 
> 22.04 you're using the Ubuntu-built GnuCash, which 
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/ <https://packages.ubuntu.com/> tells me is 4.8.
> 
> According to https://packages.ubuntu.com/ 
> <https://packages.ubuntu.com/> Ubuntu 21.10 provides GnuCash 4.4 and 
> that might be a source of the problem with a self-built GnuCash 4.9: In 
> 4.7 we changed the GSettings schema from org.gnucash to 
> org,gnucash.GnuCash because flatpak insists on the latter 3-part form. 
> We included a migration script for moving the data, but thanks to the 
> way GSettings works the build will get messed up if the old schemas are 
> installed or the build directory isn't empty when you run cmake. 
> Depending on how you installed it that might be affecting your 4.9 build.
> 
> You might find the thread beginning with 
> _https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2021-October/097926.html 
> <https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2021-October/097926.html> 
> _helpful.
> 
> BTW, I don't see an answer to your original question about old release 
> notes. If you scroll all the way to the bottom of the page at 
> https://www.gnucash.org/news.phtml 
> <https://www.gnucash.org/news.phtml> you'll find the line "Click here 
> for older announcements". That leads to 
> https://www.gnucash.org/oldnews.phtml 
> <https://www.gnucash.org/oldnews.phtml> which has all of the release 
> notes going back to 1.2.2 in 2000.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> 
>> On Mar 10, 2022, at 9:08 PM, Peter Ratzlaff <pratzlaff at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:pratzlaff at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Am I misunderstanding what "building GnuCash in the 22.04 development 
>> environment" means? I have compiled gnucash on a 22.04 installation, 
>> and it results in gnucash having the issues of preferences not being 
>> honored.
>>
>> On 3/10/22 23:46, john wrote:
>>> Preferences are mediated through GSettings, a feature of Glib-2.0. 
>>> Although the Gnome folks work really hard to maintain ABI consistency 
>>> it's really hard. Try building GnuCash in the 22.04 development 
>>> environment to see if that resolves the problem.
>>> Gnome also provides a build environment in a flatpak called Gnome 
>>> Builder, see https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Builder 
>>> <https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Builder> 
>>> <https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Builder 
>>> <https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Builder>>. That may help you sort out if 
>>> the problem is with GLib, Ubunutu, or somewhere else.
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>>>> On Mar 10, 2022, at 5:51 PM, Peter Ratzlaff <pratzlaff at gmail.com 
>>>> <mailto:pratzlaff at gmail.com> <mailto:pratzlaff at gmail.com 
>>>> <mailto:pratzlaff at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Actually, I spoke too soon. I had built 4.9 on a 21.10 installation 
>>>> and it worked fine. Then building it on 22.04 results in the 
>>>> preferences and report plot problems again. So there's something 
>>>> about the way that the rest of the 22.04 system interacts with 
>>>> gnucash, which is the problem.
>>>>
>>>> On 3/10/22 20:46, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
>>>>> 4.9 itself is a released version, but the packager may have built 
>>>>> it against an earlier Ubuntu target, so it might not work properly. 
>>>>> (the GnuCash team doesn't release .debs or maintain the Ubuntu repo 
>>>>> version)
>>>>> Glad to hear you got it straight with a custom build.
>>>>> Maybe let the package maintainer know what's up so they can upload 
>>>>> a working build into the repo for release day.
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Adrien
>>>>> On 3/10/22 4:16 PM, Peter Ratzlaff wrote:
>>>>>> True, the release has only seen a feature freeze so far, and beta 
>>>>>> status is a few weeks away. I've compiled gnucash 4.9 from source 
>>>>>> and it is working perfectly fine. For now I will assume the Ubuntu 
>>>>>> package is causing the problem.
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