On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 17:54 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 10/20/2009 05:33 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > As I said upthread, defaults are overwritten by package updates. > > > > If you have never changed anything on your desktop, you will receive the > > changed defaults. If you have spent hours customizing every aspect of > > your desktop, those changes are in your personal GConf database and will > > not be overwritten by a package update. > > > > The situation is a bit different for the padding changes, since we have > > added new GConf keys here that did not exist before. Therefore, nobody > > has an explict value of 0 in their personal GConf database, and > > everybody will get the padding. > > > > Does there exist an export/import tool for gconf database so that users > that would want to keep the old/their settings can use to export them > then just simply import it after upgrade/fresh install. That would keep > them happy and you guy's could introduce new changes targeted at new to > linux audience with less hassle.. > > If such an tool does not exists what's the recommended way of backing up > system wide/personal gconf databases so we can document that somewhere.. I recommend gconftool-2 --help-load. It is unfortunate that these options are not documented in the man page. -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
