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

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 19:31, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:34:32AM -0400, William Jon McCann wrote: 
> > Once 2.4 is released (with RH10?) we will have a mixed GNOME 2.2 (RH9) 
> > and 2.4 (RH10) environment with shared home directories and users 
> > switching back and forth.  Keywords=ABI/API stability,enterprise.
> 
> This configuration should and must work; it's OK if users need to
> configure things twice, but nothing should _break_ as you go back and
> forth.
> 
> I've said this several times in the past. ;-) And it's documented 
> on www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ IIRC
> 
> Anyhow, the only concrete step to take to fix this is to test it and 
> file each problem in bugzilla - as a start, someone should definitely
> convert this thread into bug reports and mark them as important for
> 2.4.

Please Cc andrew sobala net on any bugs to do with
switching-back-and-forth not working.

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