editors/mlview && gconfd

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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Simon Barner wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I have a problem with mlview: When you try to create a new document, an
| error message pops up stating that you need to restart gconfd. Here is
| the code where the error occurs (src/mlview-editors.c)
|
| [...]
|
| view_descriptor = mlview_editor_select_view_to_open ();
|
| if (!view_descriptor
|     || !view_descriptor->view_constructor) {
|         mlview_utils_trace_info
|         ("Unknown view type name: ") ;
|         mlview_utils_trace_info
(settings->general.default_editing_view_type) ;
|         mlview_utils_trace_info ("This may be caused by a gconfd "
|                                  "problem or a bad mlview default "
|                                  "view type name gconf key\n"
|                                  "First, try to killall gconfd and
restart it\n"
|                                  "If you still have the problem, send
a mail to"
|                                  "mlview-list at gnome.org to ask for
help\n") ;
|         return NULL ;
| }
|
| [...]
|
| Killing gconfd indeed fixes the problem. My question is: did I do
| something wrong with the GCONF_SCHEMA macro, or is there a possibilty to
| make the port restart gconfd automatically, or something else to achieve
| the same effect?

Resarting gconfd automatically is a bad idea these days, and should not
be needed.  This seems like a bug with mlview to me that it should
require a gconfd restart.

Joe

|
| Cheers,
|  Simon


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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
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