[Gretl-users] CVS gretl and gnome

[Allin Cottrell]

A word of warning for anyone in the habit of building gretl from 
CVS with gnome support enabled: If you have specific preferences 
set via the GUI and want to keep them, please take note of them -- 
I'm afraid you have to re-enter them.

This is because I've removed gconf support from gretl.  I haven't 
been following gnome development that closely, and didn't realize 
how outdated and unloved gconf is until it bit me today: if you 
ask gconf_client for the value of an integer config variable, it 
will happily return 0 even if it failed to read anything, without 
any indication of error.

>From now till further notice, gretl linked against gnome will use 
the same plain text ~/.gretl2rc configuration file that's used by 
non-gnome builds (other than on MS Windows, where we use the 
Windows registry).

Maybe once dconf matures we'll think about using that.

-- 
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC