Re: issues with preference domains

Hello,


Richard made a change that applied this behaviour, which is techically a 
fix, and matches Apple's behaviour.

However, impact on an existing system (imagine a user upgrade) is big 
since one looses many preferences. and needs to do a manual migration.

Should we have instead a compatibility migration? E.g. look for the full 
domain, if not found, look for the old one and in case copy (or move) it 
over.

Riccardo

Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I noticed and talked separately to some of you that during updates 
> some of my apps "lost" preferences. I was trying to understand where I 
> feared some encoding issues, but it appears much simpler.
>
> Look here in my Defaults:
>
> Apr 23  2024 AddressManager.plist
> Oct 21 17:23 GNUMail.plist
> Nov  6 00:50 GWorkspace.plist
>
> Dec  2 22:30 org.gap.AddressManager.plist
> Dec  2 23:15 org.gnustep.GNUMail.plist
> Nov 21 13:14 org.gnustep.GWorkspace.plist
>
>
> It appears that recently (sure after Nov 21, but change could be 
> earlier of course) we happen to have a sort of full domain, but before 
> just the app name.
>
> This can cause some impact in this existing installs. Was this an 
> intentional change? base?
>
> Riccardo
>