Debian Bug report logs - #405585
iceape fails to save preferences for "general.skins.selectedSkin"

Package: iceape; Maintainer for iceape is (unknown);

Reported by: Frank Sauer <fsauer@stud.uni-frankfurt.de>

Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 19:03:07 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: unreproducible

Found in version iceape/1.0.7-1

Done: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages <pkg-mozilla-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>:
Bug#405585; Package iceape. (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Frank Sauer <fsauer@stud.uni-frankfurt.de>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages <pkg-mozilla-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>. (full text, mbox, link).

Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Package: iceape
Version: 1.0.7-1

iceape 1.0.7-1 fails to save preferences for skin selection.

after skin selection, about:config will show a proper entry
along the lines of my selection in the preferences window. after
one restart the changes do take effect and the selected theme is
used - but the line is gone. so when closing iceape and starting it
once more, the "general.skins.selectedSkin" entry in prefs.js will still
be gone and iceape will thus fall back using the "modern" theme every
single time.

this behavior is reproducible. unfortunately, i am not able to provide
any information on the behavior of the upstream version of seamonkey.

i wish to use the GrayModern theme which i install via iceape's
software installation function and which i get from here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3594/

note that this bug is not a duplicate of bug #401620 but rather
describes a second time a problem in iceape's startup behavior
which was not resolved in bug #401620.

frank

Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages <pkg-mozilla-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>:
Bug#405585; Package iceape. (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to "Hendrik-Jan Heins" <hjheins@gmail.com>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages <pkg-mozilla-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>. (full text, mbox, link).

Message #10 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

I'm not sure what's going wrong with your setup, but I installed the
mostly crystal theme on iceape, and I can switch themes with iceape
remembering my theme settings.
I saw that the theme you are trying to add is firefox only. Could that
be part of the problem?

Hendrik-Jan


2007/1/4, Frank Sauer <fsauer@stud.uni-frankfurt.de>:
> Package: iceape
> Version: 1.0.7-1
>
> iceape 1.0.7-1 fails to save preferences for skin selection.
>
> after skin selection, about:config will show a proper entry
> along the lines of my selection in the preferences window. after
> one restart the changes do take effect and the selected theme is
> used - but the line is gone. so when closing iceape and starting it
> once more, the "general.skins.selectedSkin" entry in prefs.js will still
> be gone and iceape will thus fall back using the "modern" theme every
> single time.
>
> this behavior is reproducible. unfortunately, i am not able to provide
> any information on the behavior of the upstream version of seamonkey.
>
> i wish to use the GrayModern theme which i install via iceape's
> software installation function and which i get from here:
> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3594/
>
> note that this bug is not a duplicate of bug #401620 but rather
> describes a second time a problem in iceape's startup behavior
> which was not resolved in bug #401620.
>
> frank
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> pkg-mozilla-maintainers mailing list
> pkg-mozilla-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-mozilla-maintainers
>

Acknowledgement sent to Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages <pkg-mozilla-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>. (full text, mbox, link).

Message #15 received at 405585@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

tag 405585 unreproducible
thanks

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 07:49:15PM +0100, Frank Sauer <fsauer@stud.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
> Package: iceape
> Version: 1.0.7-1
> 
> iceape 1.0.7-1 fails to save preferences for skin selection.
> 
> after skin selection, about:config will show a proper entry
> along the lines of my selection in the preferences window. after
> one restart the changes do take effect and the selected theme is
> used - but the line is gone. so when closing iceape and starting it
> once more, the "general.skins.selectedSkin" entry in prefs.js will still
> be gone and iceape will thus fall back using the "modern" theme every
> single time.
> 
> this behavior is reproducible. unfortunately, i am not able to provide
> any information on the behavior of the upstream version of seamonkey.
> 
> i wish to use the GrayModern theme which i install via iceape's
> software installation function and which i get from here:
> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3594/

This theme is for Firefox, and doesn't support Seamonkey. I don't even
know how you got it vaguely installed, it doesn't actually install
anything, and doesn't show up in the themes list.

On my hand, I installed the orbit theme designed for Seamonkey[1], which
just installed fine, shows up in the themes list and, when selected,
doesn't set the general.skins.selectedSkin preference, neither
restarting iceape (which brings the correct skin) does. And restarting
iceape again doesn't return to modern.

But maybe old preferences from your mozilla profile may have some
influence on the behaviour you observed. Does it do the same if you
move the ~/.mozilla directory away ?

Mike

1. http://miksworld.de/orbit.html

Tags added: unreproducible Request was from Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Frank Sauer <fsauer@stud.uni-frankfurt.de>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages <pkg-mozilla-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>. (full text, mbox, link).

Message #27 received at 405585@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Mike Hommey wrote:
> This theme is for Firefox, and doesn't support Seamonkey. I don't even
> know how you got it vaguely installed, it doesn't actually install
> anything, and doesn't show up in the themes list.
> 
> On my hand, I installed the orbit theme designed for Seamonkey[1], which
> just installed fine, shows up in the themes list and, when selected,
> doesn't set the general.skins.selectedSkin preference, neither
> restarting iceape (which brings the correct skin) does. And restarting
> iceape again doesn't return to modern.
> 
> But maybe old preferences from your mozilla profile may have some
> influence on the behaviour you observed. Does it do the same if you
> move the ~/.mozilla directory away ?

the theme is not firefox only. it's just that the URL i gave above was
wrong. my bad. sorry. i must have had it from the developer's website:
http://mozilla-themes.schellen.net/
and it says there that the theme is compatible with mozilla/seamonkey.
in fact i had used it for quite some time with mozilla before mozilla
became seamonkey/iceape.

anyway..i ran a test with ~./mozilla moved away and it seems that the
problem is in fact deriving from some strange hickups in my prefs.
i'll get this fixed. and the bug can be closed.

frank

> Mike
> 
> 1. http://miksworld.de/orbit.html
>

Message #32 received at 405585@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 08:56:55PM +0100, Frank Sauer <fsauer@stud.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
> Mike Hommey wrote:
> >This theme is for Firefox, and doesn't support Seamonkey. I don't even
> >know how you got it vaguely installed, it doesn't actually install
> >anything, and doesn't show up in the themes list.
> >
> >On my hand, I installed the orbit theme designed for Seamonkey[1], which
> >just installed fine, shows up in the themes list and, when selected,
> >doesn't set the general.skins.selectedSkin preference, neither
> >restarting iceape (which brings the correct skin) does. And restarting
> >iceape again doesn't return to modern.
> >
> >But maybe old preferences from your mozilla profile may have some
> >influence on the behaviour you observed. Does it do the same if you
> >move the ~/.mozilla directory away ?
> 
> the theme is not firefox only. it's just that the URL i gave above was
> wrong. my bad. sorry. i must have had it from the developer's website:
> http://mozilla-themes.schellen.net/
> and it says there that the theme is compatible with mozilla/seamonkey.
> in fact i had used it for quite some time with mozilla before mozilla
> became seamonkey/iceape.

This one indeed is seamonkey compatible.

> anyway..i ran a test with ~./mozilla moved away and it seems that the
> problem is in fact deriving from some strange hickups in my prefs.
> i'll get this fixed. and the bug can be closed.

I'd be interested to know what kind of hickups were causing your
problems, that might be worth fixing, for people having old preferences.

Mike

Message #37 received at 405585@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):


Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 08:56:55PM +0100, Frank Sauer <fsauer@stud.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
>> Mike Hommey wrote:
>>> This theme is for Firefox, and doesn't support Seamonkey. I don't even
>>> know how you got it vaguely installed, it doesn't actually install
>>> anything, and doesn't show up in the themes list.
>>>
>>> On my hand, I installed the orbit theme designed for Seamonkey[1], which
>>> just installed fine, shows up in the themes list and, when selected,
>>> doesn't set the general.skins.selectedSkin preference, neither
>>> restarting iceape (which brings the correct skin) does. And restarting
>>> iceape again doesn't return to modern.
>>>
>>> But maybe old preferences from your mozilla profile may have some
>>> influence on the behaviour you observed. Does it do the same if you
>>> move the ~/.mozilla directory away ?
>> the theme is not firefox only. it's just that the URL i gave above was
>> wrong. my bad. sorry. i must have had it from the developer's website:
>> http://mozilla-themes.schellen.net/
>> and it says there that the theme is compatible with mozilla/seamonkey.
>> in fact i had used it for quite some time with mozilla before mozilla
>> became seamonkey/iceape.
> 
> This one indeed is seamonkey compatible.
> 
>> anyway..i ran a test with ~./mozilla moved away and it seems that the
>> problem is in fact deriving from some strange hickups in my prefs.
>> i'll get this fixed. and the bug can be closed.
> 
> I'd be interested to know what kind of hickups were causing your
> problems, that might be worth fixing, for people having old preferences.

i am unable to pinpoint the problem. removing the theme and reinstalling
it did not work. editing prefs.js manually did not work either. in the
end i removed my old ~/.mozilla and set up a new account. seemed less
trouble than finding out what exactly causes the problem since my mails
are stored on my imap-server, bookmarks could be retrieved from backup
and the few remaining prefs were quickly reentered.
i think i'll use iceweasel+icedove from now on anyway.

> Mike

frank

Reply sent to Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>:
You have taken responsibility. (full text, mbox, link).

Notification sent to Frank Sauer <fsauer@stud.uni-frankfurt.de>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (full text, mbox, link).

Message #42 received at 405585-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

> i am unable to pinpoint the problem. removing the theme and reinstalling
> it did not work. editing prefs.js manually did not work either. in the
> end i removed my old ~/.mozilla and set up a new account. seemed less
> trouble than finding out what exactly causes the problem since my mails
> are stored on my imap-server, bookmarks could be retrieved from backup
> and the few remaining prefs were quickly reentered.
> i think i'll use iceweasel+icedove from now on anyway.

Then, I'll just close this bug.

Mike

Message #47 received at 405585@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

I just downed the theme from the site you linked and it installs and
runs just fine here (iceape 1.0.7-1).
Can it be that something in your profile is causing this?

Hendrik-Jan


2007/1/4, Frank Sauer <fsauer@stud.uni-frankfurt.de>:
>
>
> Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 08:56:55PM +0100, Frank Sauer <fsauer@stud.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
> >> Mike Hommey wrote:
> >>> This theme is for Firefox, and doesn't support Seamonkey. I don't even
> >>> know how you got it vaguely installed, it doesn't actually install
> >>> anything, and doesn't show up in the themes list.
> >>>
> >>> On my hand, I installed the orbit theme designed for Seamonkey[1], which
> >>> just installed fine, shows up in the themes list and, when selected,
> >>> doesn't set the general.skins.selectedSkin preference, neither
> >>> restarting iceape (which brings the correct skin) does. And restarting
> >>> iceape again doesn't return to modern.
> >>>
> >>> But maybe old preferences from your mozilla profile may have some
> >>> influence on the behaviour you observed. Does it do the same if you
> >>> move the ~/.mozilla directory away ?
> >> the theme is not firefox only. it's just that the URL i gave above was
> >> wrong. my bad. sorry. i must have had it from the developer's website:
> >> http://mozilla-themes.schellen.net/
> >> and it says there that the theme is compatible with mozilla/seamonkey.
> >> in fact i had used it for quite some time with mozilla before mozilla
> >> became seamonkey/iceape.
> >
> > This one indeed is seamonkey compatible.
> >
> >> anyway..i ran a test with ~./mozilla moved away and it seems that the
> >> problem is in fact deriving from some strange hickups in my prefs.
> >> i'll get this fixed. and the bug can be closed.
> >
> > I'd be interested to know what kind of hickups were causing your
> > problems, that might be worth fixing, for people having old preferences.
>
> i am unable to pinpoint the problem. removing the theme and reinstalling
> it did not work. editing prefs.js manually did not work either. in the
> end i removed my old ~/.mozilla and set up a new account. seemed less
> trouble than finding out what exactly causes the problem since my mails
> are stored on my imap-server, bookmarks could be retrieved from backup
> and the few remaining prefs were quickly reentered.
> i think i'll use iceweasel+icedove from now on anyway.
>
> > Mike
>
> frank
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> pkg-mozilla-maintainers mailing list
> pkg-mozilla-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-mozilla-maintainers
>

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Debian Bug report logs - #405585 iceape fails to save preferences for "general.skins.selectedSkin"

Debian Bug report logs - #405585
iceape fails to save preferences for "general.skins.selectedSkin"