Bug#446901: compiz ignores gconf modifications and number_of_desktops value

[Giacomo Montagner <mantager@gmail.com>]

Package: compiz
Version: 0.5.2-2
Severity: important

Hi, 
I recently did an apt-get dist-upgrade and compiz was upgraded from
previous version 0.2.something. I noticed mainly 2 problems:

a) now, after any modification made through gconf-editor, I have to
logout and login to get the new configuration applied;
b) compiz seems to ignore completely the value of the key
"number_of_desktops":

- if I set hsize=1, number_of_desktops=anything-more-than-1 I get only
  one desktop; usually I use hsize=6, I get a 6-face prism,
  independently from the value of number_of_desktops key;
- "Window Selector" applet shows all open windows (on any face of my
  6-face prism)
- "Window List" applet, in spite of being configured to show only
  windows from current workspace, shows all open windows (again,
  including windows from all the 6 faces of the prism) ---> I desume
  gnome is "seeing" only one workspace;
- "Workspace Switcher" applet is the funniest one. I have to manually
  set the number of workspaces to be the same as hsize (this happened
  also with previous version, it's not a great problem). Only the first
  workspace of the 6 represented in the W.S. has a miniature on it, it
  displays the window(s) on the current face of the prism. If I change
  the face with ctrl+alt+left/right, the miniature stays on the first
  position in W.S. but changes, representing the window(s) on the
  now-active face. If I try to change desktop clicking on W.S. (on a
  rectangle representing the non-first workspace on the left of W.S.) 
  it crashes, bringing with him my gnome-panels (I use 3 panels). 

Before upgrade, I set manually the number of desktops in workspace
switcher to be the same as compiz's hsize key and each face of the prism
was represented on W.S. Clicking on one of the workspaces on W.S. made
the prism rotate until the active face was the one selected by clicking
on W.S. I've never had issues with workspaces before upgrade, so I
cannot say which the value of number_of_desktops was. 

Regards,
Giacomo


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages compiz depends on:
ii  compiz-core                   0.5.2-2    OpenGL window and compositing mana
ii  compiz-gnome                  0.5.2-2    OpenGL window and compositing mana
ii  compiz-gtk                    0.5.2-2    OpenGL window and compositing mana
ii  compiz-plugins                0.5.2-2    OpenGL window and compositing mana

compiz recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information