Bug#711118: gnome-mplayer: messes up with dconf settings even when the user didn't change anything

[Sebastian Ramacher]

Control: tags -1 + upstream

On 2013-06-04 22:35:36, Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote:
> Package: gnome-mplayer
> Version: 1.0.8-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hello,
> I noticed a misbehavior of gnome-mplayer with respect to the dconf
> configuration management.
> 
> After the following steps:
> 
>   0) start dconf-editor
>   1) reset all gnome-mplayer/gecko-mediaplayer preferences to their defaults
>   2) quit dconf-editor
>   3) start gnome-mplayer
>   4) enter its preferences dialog window and just take a look around
>      (without changing anything)
>   5) exit from the dialog window
>   6) quit gnome-mplayer
>   7) start dconf-editor
> 
> many settings are again marked as manually-changed (in boldface font),
> even though almost all of these are actually equal to their default
> value; some values are indeed non-default (such as audio-lang, for
> instance).
> I do not experience this awkward behavior, if I skip steps 4 and 5.
> 
> It seems to me that the gnome-mplayer internal configuration dialog
> window does something strange to ~/.config/dconf/user ...
> I don't think it should save anything to the configuration file, if I
> haven't changed any setting at all! In other words, the configuration
> file should stay absolutely untouched, unless I actually changed
> something.
> 
> And anyway, it should not mark settings as manually-changed, if I
> haven't changed them manually.
> 
> Finally, it should not set some options to non-default values (such as
> audio-lang, for instance), if I haven't done anything to them.
> 
> I think that the configuration dialog is not working as expected.
> 
> 
> Please forward this bug report upstream.
> Thanks for your time.

As I've already said in the in the other bug report, please report this
issue upstream yourself. I don't inted to spent any time on this.

You can find upstream's bug tracker at
https://code.google.com/p/gnome-mplayer/issues/list

Regards
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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