Bug 706620

Summary: Can't save any configuration without dconf installed, but doesn't depend on it
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Adam Williamson <awilliam>
Component: geditAssignee: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowi>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: isaac.waldron, rstrode
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Description Adam Williamson 2011-05-21 16:29:16 UTC
See this forum thread:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1473234

the user complained of not being able to save any config changes in gedit. I took an educated guess that the problem was dconf not being installed, and this indeed seems to be the issue: gedit has no dependency on dconf, so if you install a desktop other than GNOME and then add gedit to it, it can't save any preferences. It should probably grow a dependency.

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Comment 2 Adam Williamson 2012-08-22 23:58:03 UTC
This is still valid in all supported releases (16, 17, 18, Rawhide). Ray, could you please spare five seconds? It's a one-liner if you believe the dep should be enforced, I just don't want to do it myself in case there's some other exotic use case I haven't considered.

Comment 3 Adam Williamson 2012-08-22 23:58:14 UTC
*** Bug 850895 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Comment 5 Adam Williamson 2013-07-04 06:46:14 UTC
Bumping to Rawhide per comment #2.

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This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 23 development cycle.
Changing version to '23'.

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Comment 8 Adam Williamson 2016-11-24 17:58:36 UTC
Nope, still not addressed.

Comment 9 Fedora Admin user for bugzilla script actions 2023-08-22 00:13:54 UTC
This package has changed maintainer in Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.

Comment 10 Yaakov Selkowitz 2023-08-22 02:32:01 UTC
gedit does not depend on dconf.  It uses the GSettings API in GIO, for which dconf is the default backend in "regular" *nix use cases.  (However, for instance, flatpak'ed apps nowadays use keyfiles.)  This is an implementation detail which is not specific to gedit.  GSettings should fall back to the keyfile backend if dconf is not available (although it should be installed where needed), or you'll need to set GSETTINGS_BACKED appropriately.