Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 850895
Can't save any configuration without dconf installed, but doesn't depend on it
Last modified: 2012-08-22 19:58:14 EDT
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #706620 +++ 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. --- Additional comment from endoflife@fedoraproject.org on 2012-08-07 14:23:33 EDT --- This message is a notice that Fedora 15 is now at end of life. Fedora has stopped maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 15. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At this time, all open bugs with a Fedora 'version' of '15' have been closed as WONTFIX. (Please note: Our normal process is to give advanced warning of this occurring, but we forgot to do that. A thousand apologies.) Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, feel free to reopen this bug and simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were unable to fix it before Fedora 15 reached end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged to click on "Clone This Bug" (top right of this page) and open it against that version of Fedora. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
I've confirmed this bug still exists with Fedora 17 KDE spin. Reproduced as follows: 1. sudo yum install gedit 2. Ran gedit, changed some preferences (tab settings, plugins). 3. Restart gedit, preferences not saved. 4. sudo yum install dconf 5. Repeated step 2. 6. Restart gedit, preferences now saved.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 706620 ***