On 2015-01-07, Kai Willadsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 8 January 2015 at 05:30, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> 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.

Thanks for the clue.  I suspected it was something like that.  The
buest guess is that I have GSettings/dconf broken, so I'll do some
googling starting with that.

> 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.".

I don't see that message.  Here are the messages I do get (blank lines
deleted) when running the current git version (uninstalled) from the
command line:

(meld:29738): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_loadable_icon_load: assertion 
'G_IS_LOADABLE_ICON (icon)' failed
(meld:29738): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'gtk-preferences' for 
stock: Failed to load icon
(meld:29738): Gtk-CRITICAL **: render_fallback_image: assertion 'pixbuf != 
NULL' failed
bin/meld:283: Warning: g_object_ref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
  status = meld.meldapp.app.run(sys.argv)
(meld:29738): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_cairo_surface_create_from_pixbuf: assertion 
'GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed
bin/meld:283: Warning: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
  status = meld.meldapp.app.run(sys.argv)
(meld:29738): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_loadable_icon_load: assertion 
'G_IS_LOADABLE_ICON (icon)' failed
(meld:29738): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'gtk-preferences' for 
stock: Failed to load icon
(meld:29738): Gtk-CRITICAL **: render_fallback_image: assertion 'pixbuf != 
NULL' failed
(meld:29738): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_cairo_surface_create_from_pixbuf: assertion 
'GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed
(meld:29738): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_loadable_icon_load: assertion 
'G_IS_LOADABLE_ICON (icon)' failed
(meld:29738): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'gtk-preferences' for 
stock: Failed to load icon
(meld:29738): Gtk-CRITICAL **: render_fallback_image: assertion 'pixbuf != 
NULL' failed
(meld:29738): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_cairo_surface_create_from_pixbuf: assertion 
'GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed
(meld:29738): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_loadable_icon_load: assertion 
'G_IS_LOADABLE_ICON (icon)' failed
(meld:29738): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'gtk-preferences' for 
stock: Failed to load icon
(meld:29738): Gtk-CRITICAL **: render_fallback_image: assertion 'pixbuf != 
NULL' failed
(meld:29738): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_cairo_surface_create_from_pixbuf: assertion 
'GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed
(meld:29738): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_loadable_icon_load: assertion 
'G_IS_LOADABLE_ICON (icon)' failed
(meld:29738): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'gtk-preferences' for 
stock: Failed to load icon
(meld:29738): Gtk-CRITICAL **: render_fallback_image: assertion 'pixbuf != 
NULL' failed
(meld:29738): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_cairo_surface_create_from_pixbuf: assertion 
'GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed
(meld:29738): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_loadable_icon_load: assertion 
'G_IS_LOADABLE_ICON (icon)' failed
(meld:29738): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'gtk-preferences' for 
stock: Failed to load icon
(meld:29738): Gtk-CRITICAL **: render_fallback_image: assertion 'pixbuf != 
NULL' failed
(meld:29738): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_cairo_surface_create_from_pixbuf: assertion 
'GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed


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Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! HUGH BEAUMONT died
                                  at               in 1982!!
                              gmail.com            

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