Re: [Evolution] Saving Preference Changes

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf mardorf rocketmail com>]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:18:27 +0100
Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-11-22 at 16:29 -0600, Kim Foltz wrote:
> > I am using Evolution 3.12.7 in Opensuse 13.2. The Evolution 
> > Preferences Panel will display but checking a box anywhere in the 
> > panel will not stay set. The same problem exists in the Plugin 
> > Manager panel. There isn't an apply button on any of the panels. 
> > Anyone know how to fix this?
>
> apart of what Patrick suggested, run evolution from console and check 
> what it prints there, if anything, especially right after start and 
> when you'll make changes in Preferences.
>
> I'd think of a dconf issue, not saving the changes. The changes are 
> saved immediately when they are made.

I remember that years ago there were issues with the cache. Perhaps
moving ~/.cache/evolution/ to ~/.cache/evolution.BAK/ is worth to be
tested.

But indeed, more likely is a permission issue. After running some GUI
editors with root privileges, the file(s) the user needs to access
could have wrong permissions. Gedit, Pluma etc. likely have impact to
dconf or something similar important.