I have filed a bug against flatpak for this: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/4209[1]
Op zondag 4 april 2021 21:56:20 CEST schreef Geert Janssens: > From reading the reports here I believe the settings that got lost you are > those stored in GSettings. Those are not in the configuration directories > you can symlink. On linux (and hence flatpak) GSettings uses dconf as its > backend. > > As John already suggested it looks like something has changed with the > switch to the new 3.38 version of the gnome sdk our flatpak depends on. At > this point it's not clear to me yet whether that's a bug or a deliberate > change. > > For the time being you can revert to version 4.4 of the gnucash flatpak by > running (all in a single line) > flatpak update --commit > 298cf1b5b77a15d7afda8a58721b075ec8ec0c59f4b16e1e19db98e37c097b07 > org.gnucash.GnuCash > > If you are on a system that automatically updates flatpaks, you'll also have > to temporarily stop it from doing that. With flatpak (the tool) version 1.5 > you can run these commands: flatpak mask --user org.gnucash.GnuCash > flatpak mask --system org.gnucash.GnuCash > > When this issue will be fixed in the future the updates can be unblocked > with flatpak mask --remove --user org.gnucash.GnuCash > flatpak mask --remove --system org.gnucash.GnuCash > > Regards, > > Geert > > Op zondag 4 april 2021 18:32:15 CEST schreef Tommy Trussell: > > I should also say, I created symlinks so that my flatpak gnucash > > installations on different systems share the same settings folder as a > > distribution installed version, were I to revert to it. SO the flatpak > > version is doing something completely different, or it blew away the old > > settings or something, and I haven't dug around to find out what happened. > > > > On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 11:29 AM Tommy Trussell <tommy.truss...@gmail.com> > > > > wrote: > > > And just to pile on, I noticed the same in Flatpak running on Ubuntu > > > 20.04. This MAY have been after a "secondary" Flatpak update (?). It > > > still > > > says GnuCash 4.5 Flatpak inside the application but when you open a > > > terminal and run flatpak list I believe it says GnuCash 4.5+. > > > > > > I was quite surprised because I have run GnuCash for many years now and > > > this may be the first time I have had to re-establish register settings > > > for > > > my older books. It's been long enough I did not recall what the defaults > > > looked like. Apparently I made some choices years ago and haven't looked > > > back in a long time. > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 5:10 PM Guille Lopez <willel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Hello, > > >> > > >> I can confirm that I observed the same behavior, also with Flatpak in > > >> Debian bullseye. > > >> > > >> It did not mean a big deal for me because I could reapply my settings > > >> quickly, but I confirm the issue. > > >> > > >> Guille > > >> > > >> On 01/04/2021 16:40, km22 wrote: > > >> > Hi, > > >> > > > >> > I am a Debian user and install Gnucash using Flatpak. I think Flatpak > > >> > is > > >> > setup to update automatically and the latest version of Gnucash seems > > >> > to > > >> > have been installed as of March 28th. > > >> > > > >> > When I started Gnucash I was presented with the typical popup tips > > >> > and > > >> > dialogs to set up a new user file from scratch. The system did not > > >> > remember any of my recently used files. When I opened a recent > > >> > gnucash > > >> > file it loaded but all my settings are gone. For instance my tabs are > > >> > all horizontal at the top of the screen rather than vertically to the > > >> > left. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
