Re: my ~./gconf dir makes gnome unstable

[Cyrille Moureaux <Cyrille Moureaux Sun COM>]

Hi,

> I'm using gentoo-linux and have recently moved from gnome-2.10 to
> gnome-2.12. At the first glance everthing seemed to work fine, but i
> soon found out that not everthing behaves as expected.
>
> One thing is that the gnome-panel-2.12.2 dies every time i add a new
> item to it. The second problem i faced is briefly described at
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120006 . Both of them vanished
> after temporarly moving ~/.gconf to another location and restarting
> gnome. However, i decided to restore these directories to get my custom
> settings, mainly for evolution, back - unfortunately together with the
> mentioned problems. I tried '$ gconf-sanity-check-2', but that revealed
> nothing.
>
> Maybe someone in this list can help me to fix my ~/.gconf without
> loosing my personal settings ...
>  
Presumably some of the settings related to the gnome-panel which you 
inherited from a previous version are not playing nice with the new 
version. The safest way would probably be to start fresh (move aside 
your old ~/.gconf as you said you did, and let a new one be created) and 
then copy only subdirectories of it from the backup to the new version. 
For instance, if you replace ~/.gconf/apps/evolution altogether, you 
should get back your Evolution settings. The panel settings are in 
~/.gconf/apps/panel, so maybe if you leave this one alone and copy the 
rest around, you can end up with a setup where you have most of your old 
settings back (except for your panel layout, which you'll have to recreate).

I hope this helps,

Cyrille