Re: .gnome directory

[Anders Carlsson <andersca gnu org>]

On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 10:44, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 09:04:54PM -0500, jacob berkman wrote:
> > On Sat, 2001-12-01 at 16:52, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > > Would it make sense to change .gnome to .gnome2 in libgnome so people
> > > can try GNOME 2 with no risk of hosing their GNOME 1 config?  Also,
> > > this lets us avoid the issue of converting settings from GNOME 1 to
> > > GNOME 2.
> > 
> > i think this is a good idea, at least at this point.
> > 
> > jacob
> 
> So everybody seems in favour of this (I certainly am, since I nuked my
> stable setup by accident this afternoon).
> 
> Attached is a patch that does most of the work required. I didn't alter
> the default config paths in gnome-config.c (gnome/config and
> gnome/config-override), but maybe we should do that to.
> 
> When this patch is combined with a small one I'm about to send to Mark
> and Glynn for the panel and gnome-wm, I have everything running out of
> ~/.gnome2 now (until I started X-chat).
> 
> Commit approval, Anders?
> 
> Cheers,
> Malcolm
> 

Yes, please commit.

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