Op donderdag 1 juli 2021 05:19:58 CEST schreef John Ralls: > > On Jun 30, 2021, at 2:52 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> > > wrote:> > > Op dinsdag 29 juni 2021 22:22:36 CEST schreef incoming-gnuc...@sabot.com: > >> After gnucash 4.5 was announced, I tested upgrading to it on a > >> standalone test machine (running flatpak on ubuntu 20.04), and > >> > >> I encountered the issue later described here: > >> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798194 > >> > >> where all my gnucash settings were lost. On that same test machine, I > >> tried downgrading to 4.4, but my settings were still gone. This > >> seemed kind of scary, so I put off upgrading my real machine pending a > >> fix. > >> > >> I see that the bug report linked to above includes some manual > >> migration steps to export/re-import settings as a workaround, so I > >> plan to just go ahead and try that (and I will go direct from 4.4 to > >> 4.6, skipping 4.5). But I thought I'd check in to make sure that > >> there was no other pending/better way or automatic approach to this, > >> or is the manual workaround the way to go? > > > > So far there's no better workaround. You can either manually set your > > preferences again or use the command provided in the bug report. > > > > The short version of the issue is that a flatpak install of gnucash is as > > if you install gnucash on a different machine, completely isolated from > > your normal environment. There used to be a convenience to share > > preferences between your normal environment and that "virtual" flatpak > > machine. That convenience was dropped recently by the flatpak developers > > (well, the gnome runtime developers really). Instead they provide a means > > to automatically import settings from your main environment to the > > flatpak "virtual" machine, but for historical reasons this can't work > > with gnucash. So as for the convenience of having your preferences > > magically available in the flatpak environment we're stuck between a rock > > and a hard place unfortunately.> > >> If this issue affects all flatpak users, perhaps the release notes > >> should reference the preferences issue and describe or link to the > >> appropriate workaround? > > > > That's a reasonable idea. I hope someone will do so. > > Geert, > > Can you elaborate on the historical reasons on > https://github.com/flathub/org.gnucash.GnuCash/pull/43? > > Regards, > John Ralls
Did so now. Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.