[Evolution] Bug#585985: Bug#585985: evolution: general settings not respected / lost

[fakefur]

sorry about the cc thing

On 15-Jun-10 21:44, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On mar., 2010-06-15 at 21:41 +0200, fakefur wrote:
>> hi and thanks for getting back to me :)
>
> Sure, but please let the bug CC'ed.
>>
>> well i had everything working fine until the last update that included
>> evolution 2.30.1.2 ... when i started evolution after the update it went
>> full screen (which it wasn't) with message previews on for all accounts
>> (which were off) and completely ignores my font settings (even tho they
>> are still set in preferences)
>>
>> i am running debian testing (squeeze) with xfce (from the repos) and
>> slim as a login manager thingy ... it happened on both my T500 and my
>> T41P laptops
>
> Hmh, I didn't reproduce the two boxes I have (one running sid, the other
> running squeeze, both on Xfce).
>>
>> afaik gconf is running properly as everything else on my system is as it
>> was before the update and evolution still remembers things like the
>> actual account details etc etc
>
> And if you re-set the settings, are they kept? It could have been
> helpful to have the gconf settings before and after the upgrade, but I
> have to admit I don't have a clue.
>
> Cheers,
by "reset the settings" i assume you mean change them then exit then 
restart then change them back to what they were and exit and then 
restart again and see if they took?