Re: Bean through GnuStep - newbie on Linux question

[Fred Kiefer]

On 16.02.2012 08:57, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> On 02/15/12 23:07, springbunny11@gmail.com wrote:
> > I presently use the excellent word processor for mac called Bean. The
> > author of Bean said he believed a version for Gnustep was created.
> The author is right. We "forked" a snapshot and are trying to port it to
> GNUstep. Actually, we also try to make GNUstep work for it, so it is a
> testbed for Mac compatibility in terms of the build-tool, NIB
> compatibility, etc. (Another candidate in this direction is FlexiSheet,
> the spreadsheet). It was never perfect, but I have noticed it broke
> quite badly lately, so we need to check why it is now an ill
> patient.It's sad, because FlexiSheet instead improved a lot, so I hoped
> Bean would benefit from it.

Could you please detail what got broken in Bean with the new GNUstep 
release?
The only issue I am aware of is that Bean has some default values for 
colour stored in a defaults.plist. Now that GNUstep gui actually 
supports bindings for user defaults these get loaded and an NSUnarchiver 
is used here, as the bindings are set up with an 
NSUnarchiveFromDataTransformer. The actual values stored in the 
defaults.plist are keyed archived and the archiver used is a non-keyed, 
so this fails. We will either have to find a better solution here in 
base or to get Bean working again, remove the current values from the 
defaults.plist. As we exchanged quite a few mails on this, I would think 
that this has been done a long time ago in Bean.

The strange thing about these NSUnarchiveFromDataTransformer is that I 
have seen archives using one or the other archive form. No idea how this 
is supposed to work. I changed the behaviour in response to bug report 
#34760 (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?34760).
Here it would help to understand where the defaults.plist in Bean comes 
from. Was it create on Cocoa or GNUstep? In the later case we just need 
to recreate it.

Fred