549395 - Add relnote for 'browser.toolbars.showbutton.* = false' setting is not migrated

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Website, defect)

Description

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090825 SeaMonkey/1.1.18] (release)

1. Create a new 1.1 profile.
2. Set |user_pref("browser.toolbars.showbutton.home", false);|

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100205 SeaMonkey/2.0.3] (release)
[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9pre) Gecko/20100301 SeaMonkey/2.0.4pre] (nightly)

3. Create a new 2.0 profile.
4. Migrate from 1.1 profile: |seamonkey -P <NameOf20Profile> -migration|.
4r. 'Home' button is displayed.

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From bug 531526, I understand we don't want to migrate the pref itself.
But we should convert the setting (= customize the toolbar) nonetheless.

If that's not possible, we could probably just warn in the release note:
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.0.3/

NB: I didn't check '....bookmarks' and '....print' yet.

Comment 1

[Philip Chee]

> But we should convert the setting (= customize the toolbar) nonetheless.
I don't think that this is possible inside the migrator as the new settings are persisted in localstore.rdf.

> If that's not possible, we could probably just warn in the release note:
> http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.0.3/

Yes a relnote seems appropriate.

Comment 2

[Robert Kaiser]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Yes a relnote seems appropriate.

Can you write up one, I guess you mean under "Known Issues"? I also guess it should mention all browser and mailnews buttons that had should prefs?


Apart from that, this bug is WONTFIX, right?

Comment 3

[Robert Kaiser]

The wanted-seamonkey2.0 flag doesn't have any practical value any more, as the 2.0 series has already shipped and is stable.

Comment 4

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

modifying summary to go with agreed solution.

Comment 5

[Robert Kaiser]

OK, I'll wait until someone provides a good relnote and tells me in what chapter of the relnotes to put it, then I'll do that.

Comment 6

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.3a4pre) Gecko/20100328 SeaMonkey/2.1a1pre] (nightly)

Same with trunk.

Comment 7

[Philip Chee]

> Same with trunk.
Yes but the relnote is for the 2.0 release branch.

Comment 8

[Robert Kaiser]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Yes but the relnote is for the 2.0 release branch.

If someone writes it up, at least.

If a relnote surfaces here until tomorrow, it can even be part of the 2.0.4 relnotes when it ships *hint* but I have too little clue and time to write it up myself.

Comment 9

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

2.0 is long gone and I don't see much sense in adding this to current relnotes (I feel the Known Issues section is listing too many edge cases already). Reopen if you feel necessary, but if you do, please provide an explanation.