[ ayttm-Bugs-2928731 ] changes to accounts don't take effect until restart

Bugs item #2928731, was opened at 2010-01-09 12:52
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>Category: User Interface
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: geek (weregeek)
>Assigned to: Siddhesh Poyarekar (siddheshp)
Summary: changes to accounts don't take effect until restart

Initial Comment:
I need to restart AYTTM to get some changes i made to a jabber account to work - i occationally get it reset to the previous setting if i hit disconnect or reconnect. Not tried this on the other protocols yet.

I'm running the latest version of AYTTM off git, and installed it via make/make install

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>Comment By: Siddhesh Poyarekar (siddheshp)
Date: 2010-10-03 16:25

Message:
I have rewritten the preferences window interface, so this confusion has
been eliminated.

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Comment By: Siddhesh Poyarekar (siddheshp)
Date: 2010-01-12 16:04

Message:
Funny, I do the exact same thing you mentioned and it works OK for me. I
tried with the "ask for password" check box once and the server name the
second time. The server name gave me an incorrect dialog box, but the
changes surely were made.

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Comment By: geek (weregeek)
Date: 2010-01-12 15:57

Message:
Well as far as i can tell. I do the changes, hit ok, disconnect and
reconnect... and it dosen't seem to do anything. I shutdown AYTTM, and
start it again, and my changes take.

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Comment By: Siddhesh Poyarekar (siddheshp)
Date: 2010-01-12 15:33

Message:
I'm not sure what is happening, because I am able to see configuration
changes without restarting the app. The Preferences UI is quite shabby; it
is one of those things inherited from everybuddy which nobody ever touched.
It is one of the things we're looking to rewrite in the near future.

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Comment By: geek (weregeek)
Date: 2010-01-09 18:05

Message:
I suppose there's two parts then. disconnect/reconnect resets the changes i
made - but even after i hit ok, the changes in the server info i made did
not take (i was trying to get my LJ talk account working by trial and
error). I had to shutdown AYTTM each time and restart it, to get the
changes i made to work.

I am not a programmer, but it is almost like it reads the info when the
programmes start and dosen't check if the info is changed.

If i may, disconnecting and reconnecting does not belong in the account
edit window, and a apply option might be a good idea as well- but at this
point, i'm going beyond a bug report ;)

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Comment By: Siddhesh Poyarekar (siddheshp)
Date: 2010-01-09 15:53

Message:
Are you talking about changes being saved when you click the
Connect/Disconnect button in the Preferences window or in the main status
window? The former is a known issue. You have to click on OK to have the
preferences saved.

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