Graceful handling of pref conversion failures

[Pavel Sanda]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 02:37:08PM +0000, José Abílio Matos wrote:
> > LyXRC.cpp (260): Conversion failed for /home/lyx/.lyx/preferences
> > Warning: Could not read configuration file
> > ----------------------------------------
> > Error while reading the configuration file
> > preferences.
> > Please check your installation.
> > 
> > and no GUI response. This must be totally confusing for users who
> > just click on icons, because launch will fail without any visible
> > feedback for them.
> > 
> > I am not sure what should be our response - just issue warn dialog
> > and exit or launch lyx with generic settings and some warning on top
> > of that. Ideas?
> > 
> > I even think this was raised some time ago, but as of now not fixed
> > in the master.
> > 
> > Pavel
> 
> Pavel do you know if this issue as a tracker issue assigned?

I did not see it in trac (though my search was not too deep).

Pavel