Bug#405585: iceape fails to save preferences for "general.skins.selectedSkin"

Hendrik-Jan Heins hjheins at gmail.com
Thu Jan 4 22:52:12 CET 2007


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 at stud.uni-frankfurt.de>:
>
>
> Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 08:56:55PM +0100, Frank Sauer <fsauer at 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
>
>
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