[Gramps-devel] Bug in gconf/ini config

[Douglas S. B. <db...@cs...>]

I'm trying to fix a bug in writing default ini values, and am trying to 
figure out the design.

The bug is when writing a new keys.ini file, GRAMPS doesn't get the 
default value from default_value but rather asks GconfKeys. The relevant 
code from src/Config/__init__.py (with some debug):

def __upgrade_gconf():
    import _GrampsGconfKeys as GconfKeys
    print "Upgrading INI file"
    for key in default_value.keys():
       print key, default_value[key],
       data = GconfKeys.get(key)
       print data
       set(key, data)

gives output like:

('interface', 'source-height', 1) 450 0
('interface', 'person-ref-width', 1) 600 0
('interface', 'name-width', 1) 600 0
('interface', 'note-width', 1) 700 0
('behavior', 'date-after-range', 1) 9999 0

so the default_value[key] is being ignored and replaced by a zero from 
GconfKeys.get(key), and the resulting keys.ini has a bunch of zeros 
(which affects code that depends on these keys).

The big question is: what is the relation between Gconf and Ini? And the 
specific question: what should be done here (and other places) to 
respect the defaults of default_value? Thanks for any hints.

-Doug