mind can has mountains

I thought I’d document my process for finding and fixing bugs, just to see how I actually work. To begin with, I chose a fairly recently-reported snag that seemed to be straightforward; it’s [#18414] “Check boxes giving wrong columns”. It seems that the choices you make in Edit>Preferences “Visible Columns” aren’t always the same as what you get. Now, I seem to remember that these choices are held in gconf preferences, so I load up gconf-editor, navigate to apps and alexandria and see a set of boolean variables: col_own_visible, col_rating_visible and so on. I try turning them on and off via Alexandria, and it seems to affect the right gconf variables. But I can clearly see the “Rating” column disappear when I de-select “Own” – just as the report describes. The problem is in the listview display: lets have a look at listview.rb
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