Re: resetting prefs

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 18:56, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> jacob berkman <jacob ximian com> writes:
> > gnome-login-check does rm -rf ~/.gnome2 if you hold down Ctrl+Shift and
> > choose "reset settings".
> > 
> > however, it doesn't nuke ~/.gconf, or ~/.gnome.  do we want to add
> > these?
> 
> I guess so. I'm pretty sure no one knows about this magic hotkey and
> it's rarely used.
> 
> > do people [red hat] use these when doing tech support?
> 
> I'd guess our support people don't know about the keybinding and just
> tell people to type "rm -r .gnome" from the failsafe session.

if it's rarely used, the only valid check in there anymore is the
hostname check.  any reason not to just put that in gnome-session and
axe gnome-login-check?

 - jacob