Bug#405585: iceape fails to save preferences for "general.skins.selectedSkin"

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 08:56:55PM +0100, Frank Sauer <fsauer at stud.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
> Mike Hommey wrote:
> >This theme is for Firefox, and doesn't support Seamonkey. I don't even
> >know how you got it vaguely installed, it doesn't actually install
> >anything, and doesn't show up in the themes list.
> >
> >On my hand, I installed the orbit theme designed for Seamonkey[1], which
> >just installed fine, shows up in the themes list and, when selected,
> >doesn't set the general.skins.selectedSkin preference, neither
> >restarting iceape (which brings the correct skin) does. And restarting
> >iceape again doesn't return to modern.
> >
> >But maybe old preferences from your mozilla profile may have some
> >influence on the behaviour you observed. Does it do the same if you
> >move the ~/.mozilla directory away ?
> 
> the theme is not firefox only. it's just that the URL i gave above was
> wrong. my bad. sorry. i must have had it from the developer's website:
> http://mozilla-themes.schellen.net/
> and it says there that the theme is compatible with mozilla/seamonkey.
> in fact i had used it for quite some time with mozilla before mozilla
> became seamonkey/iceape.

This one indeed is seamonkey compatible.

> anyway..i ran a test with ~./mozilla moved away and it seems that the
> problem is in fact deriving from some strange hickups in my prefs.
> i'll get this fixed. and the bug can be closed.

I'd be interested to know what kind of hickups were causing your
problems, that might be worth fixing, for people having old preferences.

Mike