Re: defaults randomly being overwritten?

[Ian Jones]

> Hi, thanks.
>
> It looks this is a very high priority bug, but I can't reproduce it. I
> tried building and installing your preferences bundle, and using it, and I
> don't seem to get any user defaults corruption.
>
> I would appreciate very much if someone who can reproduce the bug could
> build a little testcase showing it, or at least track down in which part
> of the gnustep-base code the problem happens, or under which conditions it
> happens ... having something to start with would help a lot in fixing the
> bug.

Hi,
I was talking to Andy Ruder yesterday on IRC about the problem I was 
experiencing. He said that he had experienced strange behaviour when old 
versions of gdomap, gdnc and gpbs had not been killed explicitly. I stopped 
them all explicitly and now things seem to be working OK except when I am 
changing the defaults with my two bundles, say I check the check-box to hide 
default menus with my appearance bundle and then go to my font selection bundle 
and check the anti aliasing check-box it will undo the changes I made to the 
former even though I am synchronizing every time I change something.. Is this 
the normal behavior that should happen or am I going about it the wrong way?
I'm sorry about the seemingly false alarm on the defaults but I have heard 
others have similar but not quite so destructive things happen to their 
defaults so I thought that it wasn't just something I was experiencing, maybe 
this explains why. I'll certainly make sure I explicitly stop gdomap, gdnc and 
gpbs next time I update my gnustep.

Regards,
Ian