Bug#227501: suddenly ignores .gnome2/rhythmbox/iradio-2.2.xml content

[Sebastien Bacher]

Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi> writes:

> Hard to know which files are used when:
>
> 1) there is no MAN page; such a page would normally tell which files are used.
> 2) the Yelp manual does not tell either.
>
> Users should not be expected to go thru source code to find out what file it is.

Users are not supposed to know/find the files used by a soft. You just
have to report "after upgrade from 0.5 to 0.6 all my lists are empty"
... that's enough to have an idea of the problem. After that if the
maintainer/devel need more details he'll ask which file are in
~/.gnome2/rhythmbox, what's in the files, etc ...


> I did not.  See the paragraph below.  To rephrase it:  Looking at the content of
> .gnome2/rhythmbox only showed radio stations in iradio-2.2.xml and there was NO
> WAY a user should be expected to guess that configs moved around.

Ok. I've misunderstood the bug report (and the devel in bugzilla too)
because you were speaking of a file not used anymore (having
iradio-2.2.xml not parsed it's not a bug, the file is not user anymore...).


> That's correct, but having the application itself upgrade a user's files, the
> next time it is executed, definitely could be done.

Yes, and I'll speak about this with the devel.


> Btw, asking for more details is always a better approach than routinely closing
> down reports even before you have verified that the user meant what you assumed
> he did and that he could have know about possible changes in the
> software. :)

Yes. But usually I don't close bug report without asking details, I've
just misunderstood this one, sorry.


> In this case, the change file showed nothing special between previous 0.6.x
> versions and 0.6.3, so the only conclusion I could come up to is that some
> config file had been ignored, possibly because of PPC-port related
> bugs.

I'm not sure of the changes, but I'll talk with the devels about this
and let you know.



Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher