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

[Frank Sauer]

Mike Hommey wrote:
> 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.

i am unable to pinpoint the problem. removing the theme and reinstalling
it did not work. editing prefs.js manually did not work either. in the
end i removed my old ~/.mozilla and set up a new account. seemed less
trouble than finding out what exactly causes the problem since my mails
are stored on my imap-server, bookmarks could be retrieved from backup
and the few remaining prefs were quickly reentered.
i think i'll use iceweasel+icedove from now on anyway.

> Mike

frank