Re: Using the same home dir with Gnome 2.2 and Gnome 2.4

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 16:21, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Alexander Larsson">
> 
> > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 15:20, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > 
> > > The correct thing to do to provide support for 1.x, 2.0 and 2.2, is to
> > > make sure the Desktop directory and .gnome-desktop symlink are created
> > > when the user's home directory is created (through /etc/skel,
> > > pam_mkhomedir, or whatever).
> > 
> > No, that will mess up ~/Desktop with crap links whenever you run an older
> > gnome.
> 
> Okay, combined with a .hidden file that ignores them on 2.4. :-) This really
> is the cleanest way of managing the change... Keeping separate gnome-desktop
> and Desktop directories really hurts.

Its not as simple as that. The old gnome creates links for mounted media
and stuff that you can't just hide with a .hidden file. Plus it does
dangerous things like removing links in ~/.gnome-desktop that it thinks
are old media links. (A known bug in 2.2, now *finally* fixed.)

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