Re: Updated 1.8.5 -> 3.12.2 and now preferences don't work

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 8 January 2015 at 05:30, Grant Edwards <grant b edwards gmail com> wrote:
> meld 3.12.2 went stable on Gentoo a week or two back, and after the
> udate to 3.12.2 text filters don't work.  The settings seem to be
> ignore within a session and don't get saved: they all go back to
> unchecked when meld is restarted.
>
> I've blocked 3.x and gone back to 1.8.5, and everything works again.
>
> Any ideas on what causes that?

In 3.12, preferences moved from GConf to GSettings/dconf, so the
backends are entirely different. However, this should Just Work if the
environment is correctly set up. If it's not, this is really a problem
for your distribution. You will usually get a warning on the command
line along the lines of "Using the 'memory' GSettings backend.  Your
settings will not be saved.".

cheers,
Kai