Re: [Evolution] Evo settings are not preserved across sessions. SOLVED

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 17:56 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 08:32 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 09:45 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > These include Switcher Appearance (I don't want to see the button) and
> > > "Mark Read After <n> Seconds", which I want turned off. When I start a
> > > new session these have been reset to their default values.
> > >
> > > Window size and placement are also not preserved, but the message pane
> > > column widths are.
> > >
> > > Other settings such as account details etc. are preserved correctly.
> >
> > The parts you say are preserved correctly -- e.g. message pane column
> > widths and account details -- are stored in text files.
> >
> > The parts you say are NOT preserved are all stored in dconf.
> >
> > But I don't have enough facts to try and speculate.
>
> Thanks Matthew. I figured it out only seconds before seeing your
> post :-)
>
> It turns out that "yum install evolution" doesn't pull in dconf. As this
> is a KDE Live spin, it isn't there by default either, thus it has to be
> installed manually. "yum install dconf" seems to have fixed the issue.
>
> I'll report this to Bugzilla once I figure out which BZ to send it to.
> It's really a packaging bug so perhaps the Fedora one is best.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=984695

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