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 17:36, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <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.

Also, the names of the actual files are translated, and can be renamed
by the user.

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