GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 581993
Number of Rows, Columns not set
Last modified: 2009-08-04 23:29:55 UTC
Under build 1.9.8, under File, Preferences, Windows, setting the number of Sheets works perfectly, the number of Columns ignores the value entered and returns to 256 and the number of Rows saves the value (I typed 1 million and the value was saved as 1048576 which is the nearest power of 2, so it's ok) but the sheet still has 65536 (2^16) rows
There is indeed weird stuff happening. Under Linux the down spin button part does not work and after setting the sheet size in the rpeference dialog we still get 65536 rows when appending a sheet.
Fixed. New workbooks open with the preference size. Append/insert/etc. use the existing sheet size.
I'm using build 1.9.10 (20090803) and the bug is still not fixed. The values that show up are 1 Sheet 128 Columns and 128 Lines (which are clearly not the values used by Default). Changing this either is not applied or not saved.
This works just fine ounder Linux. Apparently it may be an MS Windows specific issue with reading of the preference settings.
That might be a bug in goffice/app/go-conf-win32.c. Do some options work or none?
I think it's not only a read settings problem but also a write problem. Some options do work within one session but the values are not saved. E.g. The default number of sheets is 3 but the value displayed is 1. If I change this to 2 and then open a New workbook (without closing the first workbook), the second workbook does have 2 sheets (but the value displayed in Preferences is still 1) When I close Gnumeric the values return to the default 3 sheets per workbook.
Closing. The original bug is fixed. The new problem is now bug 590786.