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

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Alexander Larsson">

> > 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.

They should be temporary though, and probably controllable in a managed
environment... Not horribly harmful.

> 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.)

Troublesome, but it shouldn't be too bad...

- Jeff

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