Re: Panel Schema Changes + GConf

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org> writes: 
> We talked about the schema changes in the release team meeting last night,
> most of us being surprised that a fairly trivial switch to an undocumented
> convention went through, without notice, breaking everyone's configs.
> 
> All between beta 2 and beta 3, so it's probably going to cause a few
> redundant bug reports as testers wonder why their panel has barfed. That's
> quite a bit of unnecessary work on everyone's part at this stage of the
> release.

Sorry about that. I didn't know it would break anything in suggesting
the change (in fact I still don't understand why it does break
anything and have a vague suspicion that it reflects some issue with
how the panel works that it does).

> It would be inane to revert now, as it would only break everyone's panel
> configuration *again*. Thus, we'd like to see some documentation of the
> underscore convention, so this mistake isn't made in the future. Perhaps
> this could be done for your GConf homepage, Havoc. :)

Sure.

Havoc