154186 - Have to restart to pick up changes in Internet Preferences (home page)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

seen on recent builds of ProjectX.

-click through the path from Preferences to get to the system prefs for "Web"  
change the home page.
-close Projectx and restart (and/or reboot the os first)
-relaunch the app.  

the homepage doesn't stick.  Same as it was before being changed.

Comment 1

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

I just tried changing the home page in IE to www.cnn.com....when I then launched
ProjectX I get cnn as the homepage.

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

WorksForMe using Chimera/20020625. (ProjectX?)

Comment 3

[saari (gone)]

odd, I'm not sure why that would be... Steve is this some IE vs. OS weirdness?

Comment 4

[Steve Dagley]

There have been some issues on the Carbon developer list about prefs not
sticking if changes were made with an app that uses InternetConfig running.  Try
making sure ProjectX isn't running when the pref change is made.  And note that
as of IE 5.2 the home page setting in the Web tab of the Internet pane of the
System Preferences app is no longer used, or edited, by IE.

Greg, ProjectX is the artist formerly known as Chimera :-)

Comment 5

[Greg K.]

I was changing it in System Preferences. Should I have been changing it in IE?

Comment 6

[Steve Dagley]

No, System Preferences is the app you want to use to change settings like home
page and download folder.  IE 5.1.x and Entourage (sp?) are reportedly very bad
about overwriting changes made while they are running so I was just mentioning
having other apps open could cause problems.

Comment 7

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

Ah...I see.  Shut down the app.  Make the homepage change via the system
preferences. Then, start the app again.  Homepage takes.  So the problem is that
the homepage can't be change with chimera running.

Comment 8

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

we only read from IC at startup, so if the app is running, we don't notice until
the next startup.

Comment 9

[Greg K.]

(This isn't really of critical severity, is it? Looks more like major at most,
and more likely normal.)

Comment 10

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

With my changes, we request the pref from IC each time we open a new window, but
that still doesn't fix this bug. Quitting and restarting the app does, so it's
the IC bug that Steve mentions. Reducing severity.

Comment 11

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Resummarizing, and futuring. This really isn't our bug.

Comment 12

[Stuart Morgan]

*** Bug 186437 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[L. H.]

WONTFIX since bug 279982 would change this because of 10.3 and 10.4?

Comment 14

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

As we approach a new way to do this, this bug is invalid. Bug 279982 will "fix"
this.

Simon, this seems like one we should WONTFIX.

Comment 15

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

IC support for the home page has been removed.