Re: [Gramps-devel] "Remember last view" option?

[Benny M. <ben...@gm...>]

2012/10/8 John Ralls <jr...@ce...>

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> On Oct 8, 2012, at 6:48 AM, Benny Malengier <ben...@gm...>
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> 2012/10/7 Paul Franklin <pf....@gm...>
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>> I think automatically disabling "Remember last view"
>> whenever gramps is started with the database locked
>> is a wonderful idea, and should go into 3.4.2 as I have
>> seen dozens of users on the bug tracker asking what
>> to do in this situation.  They are typically beginners
>> (and as Jerome says typically after trying a buggy
>> third-party addon) and we should prevent it happening.
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> It is not related to the family tree though. It would be interesting to
> add to the config setting a clean-exit option. On opening of gramps it can
> be set to False, only the closing of gramps in a normal way should write
> True to it.
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> Then on restart, if clean-exit is False, load the default Person View.
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> Yes, that would be helpful.
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> It would also be helpful to have a top-level exception handler that
> displays (or writes to a file in $HOME ) the traceback and cleans up and
> closes the database so that the user doesn't have to break the lock when
> s/he restarts. It won't help with segfaults, but almost all of the crash
> bugs I see are from unhandled exceptions .
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We have a top level exception handler.
With bugs, we don't always now the state of the database though, so you
would have to close and restart behind the scenes I suppose to do what you
would like.

In my view, best is to fix the bugs, not to give the impression to the user
all is fine while it is not.

Benny


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> Regards,
> John Ralls
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