Saving my panels before upgrade

Philippe phd2 at fcomfrench.com
Mon Jan 17 14:16:55 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 20:41, James Wilkinson wrote:

> Basically, Gnome neither knows nor cares about partitions, nor if the
> files it sees stayed on the disk over an upgrade or were restored from a
> backup. [1]
> 
> Upgrade is "supported" in as much as it's expected to work. So gconf is
> supposed to be able to migrate settings to the new version. Exactly how
> the old settings got there is not important, as long as they're
> self-consistent.
> 
> So yes, that should work.
> 
> James (who zapped his old settings anyway because he wanted to see what
> the new desktop was like).
> 
> [1] This is not necessarily true. But it's true enough for this
> discussion.
Thanks a lot ! Nothing more to say !
Great community here !

Philippe
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Philippe, Chiangmai, Thailand




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