Re: [Evolution] Loose configuration settings

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

We were only cloning Outlook "features", we thought this was expected
behaviour :-)

j/k

unfortunately I have no idea what the problem is and I would tend to
think that somehow gconfd is not actually saving the settings to disk or
something? evolution simply passes the options off to gconf to save them
in whatever format it is configured to store them in. since it is
working for you for the first few restarts, that suggests to me that
evolution has done it's job in saving those settings...

perhaps I should audit gconf and make sure it doesn't suffer from the
same I/O problems that bonobo-conf used to suffer from before I
unwillingly became the maintainer :-\

Jeff

Mike Dougherty wrote:

> I am having a little issue with Evo on my home machine (RH 8.0). I 
> tried looking for answers in the mailing list and on the website with 
> no luck. So I'm hoping that one of you can help, or at least point me 
> in the right direction.
>
> It seems that sometimes when I exit Evo and then start it back up 
> again it has reverted back to some old settings. When I first upgraded 
> to 1.4 I noticed that it wouldn't save the size and location of the 
> splitters in Calendar. When I thought it was just limited to that I 
> figured I could ignore it and hope it would go away with a new 
> release. However, now it spread to the entire application. I don't 
> even know what settings it is reverting to. Could it be the settings I 
> had before upgrading to 1.4?
>
> I know using "Settings" can get kind of vague. So I will try to 
> explaing what I mean. One example is the security settings. I recently 
> started signing my emails. So I entered the identity in the box 
> provided and checked a few options. Send a few emails and they are all 
> signed. Close and restart Evo once, twice, three times all is well. 
> Close and restart Evo the fourth time and my security information is 
> gone. Same type of thing with the mail account names. I renamed my 
> mail accounts to something a little more personable. Same thing. When 
> it does loose the settings it seems to always go back to the same 
> thing. I can't really tell is this is the default or if it's some 
> previous setup I had some time ago. I'd like to be able to make some 
> changes to the configuration of Evo without worrying if they are going 
> to be there the next time I restart.
>
> I've seen a few messages with some ideas. But I don't want to go 
> pecking around in the configuration without some guidence from the 
> experts.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Mike
>
>
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