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Re: [Gramps-devel] Bug in gconf/ini config
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From: Benny M. <ben...@gm...> - 2007-11-27 14:01:42
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Do I understand correctly that people only installing 3.0 now, and hence
using their old 2.2.x keys.ini file are just fine?
Benny
2007/11/27, dsblank <db...@cs...>:
>
>
> Follow-up note: if you have used GRAMPS 3.0 prior to version 9401, then
> you
> should delete your ~/.gramps/keys.ini file. If you don't, then you will be
> running with some bizarre defaults on some keys, and GRAMPS will likely
> perform some functions incorrectly.
>
> -Doug
>
>
> dsblank wrote:
> >
> > Benny Malengier wrote:
> >> Yes fix it.
> >
> > Done, in trunk version 9401.
> >
> >> Gconf support is deprecated with 3.0, so we should upgrade once
> >> correctly and that's it
> >
> > Ok, thanks.
> >
> > -Doug
> >
> >> Benny
> >>
> >> 2007/11/25, Douglas S. Blank < db...@cs...
> >> <mailto:db...@cs...>>:
> >>
> >> Ok, I tracked down the issue and it appears to be a change in the
> way
> >> that gconf client works. It used to raise an exception when a key
> did
> >> not exist, but now it gives a default value. It appears that the
> >> correct
> >> way now to check for a key is to try to get it first: if it exists,
> >> it
> >> will return an object, else None.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure who maintains src/Config/_GrampsGconfKeys.py ... shall
> I
> >> fix it?
> >>
> >> -Doug
> >>
> >> Douglas S. Blank wrote:
> >> > 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
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
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