Plugin enabled/disabled state not persistently stored

[Xavier Guillot]

Binary package hint: gnote

Hello,

On the last version of Gnote (0.7.1) on Ubuntu Karmic, there is a new plugin called "Note of the day" which automatically creates a "Today" note.

As I do not need it, I go to "Preferences" - "Plugins" window and deactivate it. I also suppress the "today" note added.

But each time I restart Gnote, "Today" note reappears, and when I check in preferences, "Note of the day" plugin is reactivated.

Best regards,

Xavier

[Xavier Guillot (valeryan-24)]

Answer received from Gnote mailing list :

"That is because the information about which addins are enabled or disabled is not persistently stored. This is planned for the next release in the 0.7.x series."

So this bug is not correlated to Ubuntu and will be solved soon.

[Lupine (thelupine)]

Converting this back to a bug, and opened a bug in Gnome's bugzilla https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615865 We are now on the release mentioned in the mailing list (0.7.x), however the issue remains.

[Lupine (thelupine)]

Gnome bug #615865 was a duplicate, here is the original Gnome bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=611731

[Kamil Páral (kamil.paral)]

My current workaround (until it's fixed in Ubuntu):

$ sudo rm /usr/lib/gnote/addins/0.7.1/libnoteoftheday.so
$ killall gnote

[Lupine (thelupine)]

I decided to give packaging a try myself, and it appears I've successfully built Gnote 0.7.3 and uploaded to my PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~thelupine/+archive/ppa/+packages?field.name_filter=&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=maverick

This does fix this issue, and hopefully others find the updated package useful.

[Vincent Cheng (vincent-c)]

Fixed in gnote 0.7.5-1 (oneiric).