Re: my ~./gconf dir makes gnome unstable

[Matthias Langer <mlangc gmx at>]

On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 14:57 +0100, Cyrille Moureaux wrote:
> 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

Well, at first thanks for your tipp. Unfortunately importing my
evolution settings didn't work via
$ cp -ax gconf_old/apps/evolution .gconf/apps 
and 
$ rm -r .gconf/apps/panel
did not solve my problem.

I guess that, for evolution, there are some additional dirs and or files
wich should be copied too, but i wasn't able to find them for now.