Fedora 8 to 9 preupgrade report

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 07:02:48AM +0000, Waqas Bhatti wrote:
> 
> A few problems:
> 
> - gnome-terminal now starts in the ~/Desktop folder. Is this an upstream
> change? I couldn't see any way to get back to the previous behavior,
> either in the options, or in gconf-editor. Help?

That is really simple.  Put in your profile (an aditional
file in /etc/profile.d/ if you want system-wide or in your own
~/.bash_profile):

      [ "$PWD" = "$HOME/Desktop" ] && cd

and this will repair that damage.  Similar if you are using
something else for your default shell.

> - emacs is now emacs-22.2, so typing emacs doesn't launch emacs anymore.
> The link 'Applications > Accessories > Emacs Text Editor' is also broken. 
> An alias in /etc/bashrc took care of this, but it's slightly annoying. 
> Is this a known issue?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=394131

You can add a missing link yourself, or you can hack with
'alternatives' and fix that too, but this is a real PITA.

  Michal