Re: Moving dot files to ~/.etc

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

Hi,

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 10:27, Ron Yorston wrote:

> How do people handle automounted home directories?  We had a case the
> other day where a user's desktop configuration got confused when they
> logged into Solaris and Linux systems running different releases of
> GNOME.

	You mean using the same home directory under different version of
GNOME?

	How do we handle that? Badly, but we can learn to do better.

	One example of the kind of problems you might see is that the panel
configuration before 2.4 conflicts with the panel configuration in 2.4
and later. In retrospect we should have stored the new panel
configuration in a different location.

	Another example is if you move or remove schemas for an applet,
configurations from an older version of GNOME don't work with the new
version of GNOME because your older configuration still references the
old schemas - e.g.:

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91194

	The solution there is to never remove schemas.

	(Another conflict might arise because GNOME on Solaris installs in
different locations from GNOME on Linux, so file paths in your
configuration will be pointing to the wrong place)

Cheers,
Mark.