Re: my ~./gconf dir makes gnome unstable

[Matthias Langer <mlangc gmx at>]

I think - not perfectly sure about it - that removing
desktop/gnome/interface did the trick. If anybode is interested in more
concrete results i can do some further investigations because i've a
backup of my buggy gconf dir.

Matthias
> On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 15:53 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
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