2008/2/23, Michal Jaegermann <michal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 03:30:44PM +0100, Antonio M wrote: > > > > tnx Kevin, > > > > I think that this is a (good) workaround, but system should not > > destroy my settings and developer should take care of it (and possibly > > to restore it) > > > This is a "Pearl of Wisdom" which recently David Zeuthen deigned to > bestow on me in a response to a report which turned out to be > settings/interface breakage; with a very non-obvious (ok, for me) > and hard to find replacement, I may add. > > "Sorry, but this is Fedora; there is no expectation of settings > being preserved from one version to another". > > I think that this is obviously wrong but some do have this attitude > and is apparently very hard to do something about it. > > Moreover in this particular case for a person who did that breakage, > and was aware what is going on, it was a simple matter of adding > some package scripts with gconftool-2 which would read old settings > and write corresponding new ones as needed (very far from obvious > what new ones may be and no idea what were reasons behind the > change) to avoid the problem. Yes, you would have to walk through > all user accounts on a machine. This is a nature of the beast. As > things stand expect much more "fun" of that sort after realease as > the report was closed with a blatantly false "NOTABUG". > > Michal > > > -- > > fedora-test-list mailing list > fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list > only one word: I was not switching from a version to another, but applied some updates. Unfortunately I am working on an Italian keyboard :-( .... And as workaround from Kevin doesn't work on my system, I am waiting for hints from developers.This is not "NOTABUG"!!!!! -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
