Re: Module proposal: dconf

[Colin Walters <cgwalters gmail com>]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Ross Burton <ross burtonini com> wrote:
>
>
> Not providing a migration path will probably delay adoption of
> dconf/gsettings into Debian because Debian tries it's hardest to
> preserve user configuration, even during an update.  There are long and
> scary scripts which can migrate gnome-panel 1.x to 2.x in Debian...

I think we need some migration for things which are important (fonts)
and/or highly user-visible (background) at a minimum.  Now if we
migrate gnome-panel then clearly those scripts have to get pretty
scary.

So the question isn't "do we migrate or not", but "how much do we migrate".

-- Colin, who long ago wrote the first bits of those scripts, but if
tasked with it this time would probably write them in something better
than Perl