GUI-Preferences for data store files do not overwrite conf.py

[MartinMonkos]

Expected behavior

One should be able to change the "data-stores"-PATH from the GUI preferences.

Actual behavior

Preferences for 'data-stores'-PATH in Cate-GUI do not overwrite "conf.py" in the $home/.cate-directory properly. (Actually two different conf.py's exist; see screen-shot below.)
Effect: Changing 'data-stores'-PATH via GUI does not work.

Steps to reproduce the problem

1. Click on 'File' in Cate-GUI's panel above.
2. Select 'Preferences'
3. Click on 'Data Management' in the 'Preferences'-panel
4. Enter some user-defined 'data-stores'-PATH
5. Restart Cate-GUI

Screen-shots

Two config-files exist:
/home/mmonkos/.cate/conf.py

/home/mmonkos/.cate/0.9.0.dev5/conf.py

Specifications

Linux, 0.9.0-dev5

[forman]

@MartinMonkos $home/.cate/conf.py should not be used at all. Correct location of file is $home/.cate/<version>/conf.py. Are you sure, the latter has no effect?

[MartinMonkos]

I changed the path inside $home/ .cate/conf.py when I adjusted the data store path. Maybe this caused the problem.
Checked this issue with a fresh installation of 0.9.0-dev.6 - everything seems to work fine.

[forman]

Just had a similar issue and checked more carefully.
In fact, Cate Desktop does modify .cate/conf.py, it does not modify .cate/<version>/conf.py!

When reading configuration, Cate reads both files where .cate/<version>/conf.py overwrites .cate/conf.py settings with same name.

[forman]

Problem is back in 1.0.1.dev1.

1. Change local data store path in Cate Dektop preferences. Exit.
2. Find the correct path in <user>/.cate/1.0.1.dev1/config.py
3. Restart Cate Desktop. Find it using the default data store path.

[forman]

Closing this - not a bug. I forgot to shut down the Cate WebAPI service while developing. So the changed config.py was not loaded.

Would be nice if we auto-reload config.py if we detect a change.