Notification preflet: unable to save settings

[Giova84]

I was attempting to change settings for Notifications (I'd wish to change the Window width), once i click on "Apply" button, an alert window told me "An error occurred saving the preferences. It's possible you are running out of disk space." Obviously I'm not running out of disk space :-)

hrev48327 screenshot attached.

[pulkomandy]

Hi, If you updated from an older version of the nightlies, you need to delete the config/settings/system/notifications folder. The folder was replaced with a single settings file now, but the preferences panel is not able to migrate from the old format.

[Giova84]

Ok, deleting the "notification" folder did solved the situation. Thank you! So this ticket can be closed as invalid!

[Giova84]

Ops, if the preferences panel is not able to migrate from the old format, maybe this ticket should be stay open.

[pulkomandy]

It was decided to do it this way because migrating from alpha4 to beta1 is not supported, and we don't want to have support for the old format in the notification preflet (it removes a lot of code to use the new format).

[tangobravo]

So it currently uses the defaults if you have the old-style settings folder? Perhaps just checking for the folder and deleting it when apply settings is a good compromise?

[X512]

Silently delete settings probably is not a good solution, but better than became unavalible to save settings. Program should show alert that setting have invalid format or obsolete after being started. User sould have ability to keep or delete old settings file.

[pulkomandy]

We usually do that, but in this case there is no upgrade path from alpha4 so it is useless. We don't want to clutter the code with handling of the old settings. Problem will appear only for users that update an install done before october to a current one, then try to change notification preferences.

There weren't much settings in the Notifications preferences anyway, the important things (ability to block apps, notification history) were never saved anyway. So it's easy to reconfigure the whole thing.

[Giova84]

After deleting the config/settings/system/notifications folder, at the next reboot I've found that notifications were disabled (so I enabled them again from the notification preflet). Shouldn't notifications be enabled by default? I mean that notifications could be optionally disabled. IIRC on Haiku Alpha 4, notifications were enabled by default.