Test of Preferences tab.

[Tomaz Canabrava]

Willem,

If I did the things correctly, a save should sync the file with the
preferences, also quitting the app should sync too (because there are
preferences that are ser elsewhere)

Apply should not save the file

On Tuesday, 1 November 2016, Willem Ferguson <
willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za> wrote:

> On 01/11/2016 21:00, Tomaz Canabrava wrote:
>
> Testing your findings - I fixed the font change today - hmm. Will test all
> of them here and see what's going on - thanks willem
>
> My greatest apologies for pointing out problems that are actually my own
>> finger problems and not problems of code.
>> Kind regards,
>> willem
>>
>> Tomaz, my file .config/Subsurface/Subsurface.conf was not updated at all
> while I messed around with the Preferences.
> Last date yesterday. I then looked at the permissions for that file and it
> had been set to root. Changed permissions to myself. A big part of my
> problems. However still some problems remain.
>
> But before continuing with this I need to understand one thing. At what
> stage are the preferences written to the config file? What triggers saving
> of preferences data to the config file? When hitting the SAVE button on the
> appropriate preferences tab? When exiting Subsurface? What if no dive
> details have been changed and only preferences have been changed?
>
> If I understand that, then I would be able to do a better test.
>
> Kind regards,
> willem
>
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