Ubuntu
gnome-settings-daemon package

Make Ubuntu's default settings the fallback of GNOME Settings Daemon

Bug #704392 reported by Sense Egbert Hofstede
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gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon

When GNOME Settings Daemon crashes, the system reverts to some baked-in defaults. The icons and settings used are not Ubuntu's default settings, and don't look too pretty.

It would be better, I feel, if the baked-in defaults would be Ubuntu's defaults, so that when the settings daemon crashes, your system still looks like Ubuntu and not like GNOME 2.0.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: gnome-settings-daemon 2.32.1-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic 2.6.37
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jan 18 13:30:19 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=nl_NL:nl:en_GB:en
 LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=nl_NL.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon

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Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for the suggestion, that's something we discussed recently in the desktop team but it's not clear why a gnome-settings-daemon reset anything rather than letting the system in its current state...

Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Going back to default would also be weird for users using another theme while staying on the current settings would do the right thing

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Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense) wrote :

Not resetting at all probably would be the best option, but it could be that the reset happens due to the nature of the GSettings system. When settings are updated, they are immediately changed in applications that use them as well, right? Maybe the reset is presented to applications like regular value changes, so the applications just update their views.

In case GNOME Settings Daemon doesn't start right from the beginning, at the start of a new session, I think it would be good to adjust the fall-back values anyway, though.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the theme change issue is there for years and has nothing to do with gsettings, especially that there is no reason that g-s-d crashing should change the user config key...

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