Comment 11 for bug 167857

> looks like you made preferences loading dependent on gui mode

I wonder what makes it look so to you.

The code clearly says otherwise.

Or did you try it and found that preferences are not loaded? I did and the preferences are loaded. Changing the plain SVG indentation amount to a non-default value and doing --export-plain-svg (one of the few cases I was able to find when preferences influence non-GUI use) with and without GUI worked equally well.