GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 346433
Preferences Not Taking Effect
Last modified: 2006-07-05 02:03:23 UTC
Please describe the problem: When changing preferences using the Preferences menu, I can enter preferences, but some of them won't take effect. I know that "Autocomplete" works, but the default font and dpi settings don't. I took a look at the .gnumericrc file, and the settings are in there. They're just not getting picked up by the program. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open gnumeric and go to File -> Preferences. 2. Change a setting like font size or dpi. 3. Restart the program, and the settings haven't taken effect. Actual results: The settings don't change. Expected results: The font size would be different when I re-enter the program. Even in the menu that I changed the setting, it hasn't taken effect. Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information: I've found a fix, actually. It seems that the font size is being saved in .gnumericrc as "core/defaultfont/size," whereas, based on some other settings I've put in, it should be "gnumeric/core/defaultfont/size." After making this change, it works. The solution is seemingly in how the settings are being saved to the file.
Just for the reocrd. THis works fine foir me with 1.6.0 under GNU/Linux
Which operating system are you using and are you running gnome? Gnumeric usually uses gconf to store these preferences!
I did this using Xubuntu, and no, I wasn't using GNOME.
hmm, so you are using the --without-gnome configuration. Strangely enough the paths ought to be the same.
Yes: a typo in the function writing floating point values into the preference file. Fixed in cvs HEAD. The fix will be in the next major release of Gnumeric.