GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 335892
error dialog when opening preferences if settings are read-only
Last modified: 2021-05-19 12:14:21 UTC
if you open the preferences dialog after setting all of the mailer gconf keys read-only, you get an error dialog from gconf, saying: Can't overwrite existing read-only value: Can't overwrite existing read-only value: Value for `/apps/evolution/mail/display/fonts/use_custom' set in a read-only source at the front of your configuration path this suggests what is probably happening is that evo is reading the setting from gconf and then setting the value on the preferences widget after the prefs widget has been hooked up to a signal handler which tries to re-save the setting when the widget changes. if that's the case, then it should be fixable by setting the original value before hooking up the callback Other information:
Bumping version to a stable release.
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