When emerging an updated version of smplayer, my user settings get reset or overwritten. Settings like default video/audio output, audio normalisation, the interface layout, and also the 'current' playlist just disapear. This happened going from 0.6.4 to 0.6.5 and also from 0.6.3 to 0.6.4. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge smplayer 2.wait for an update to be availible 3.emerge the update ;) Actual Results: I get pissed of, because configuring smplayer takes about 5 minutes every time, allthewhile my nice cup of tea is just getting cold Expected Results: I should not have to do this, just for a minor version update. going from 0.6 to 0.7 is maybe a reason to break config compatibility, this however is not. Also, I cannot seem to find the system-tray icon option anymore...
Please read the info messages emerge provides you with a bit more carefully. At the end of installing smplayer-0.6.4 or -0.6.5 you get the following message: Note that the default configuration files location has changed since 0.6.4. You may want to move your existing configuration: mv ~/.smplayer ~/.config/smplayer I gonna mark this bug as INVALID as a solution already exists.
Oh, just saw that the info message only appears when installing smplayer-0.6.5, not 0.6.4 Anyway, as both versions currently are not marked stable, you should have recieved this message when installing 0.6.5
So this move happened from 0.6.3 to 0.6.4, and again from 0.6.4 to 0.6.5 ?? I sadly cannot recall reading that message, neither then nor now, but even so, I reconfigured everything going from 0.6.3 to 0.6.4, so the settings should have already been saved at the correct location?! On a side note, what's up with mplayer not knowing the '-volume' command. I read on the smplayer forums that there's a patch availible for mplayer and as smplayer is in portage with support for volume-setting before playback, shouldn't mplayer in portage also support it? At least via a use flag?!
(In reply to comment #3) > So this move happened from 0.6.3 to 0.6.4, and again from 0.6.4 to 0.6.5 ?? > I sadly cannot recall reading that message, neither then nor now, but even so, > I reconfigured everything going from 0.6.3 to 0.6.4, so the settings should > have already been saved at the correct location?! Well I cannot confirm that the upgrade from 0.6.4 to 0.6.5 garbles/resets the configs again. But to be honest I just moved my config as mentioned in the note from 0.6.5 ebuild (so obviously ran smplayer-0.6.4 without my config from <0.6.4 ;). > On a side note, what's up with mplayer not knowing the '-volume' command. > I read on the smplayer forums that there's a patch availible for mplayer and as > smplayer is in portage with support for volume-setting before playback, > shouldn't mplayer in portage also support it? At least via a use flag?! Well this has nothing to do with smplayer directly (despite the fact, that it could make use of this option) so if you feel the need of such a USE flag for the mplayer ebuild, please file a new bug against media-video/mplayer and explain exactly why you think this USE flag is needed. Although I don't know if our mplayer maintainers would happily incorporate patches, that were not accepted by mplayer's upstream maintainers. Cheers Poly-C
