Re: panel questions (new to gnome)

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 08:47:39AM -0400, Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu wrote:
>   I was wondering about this, actually...it seems to me like it's a bad
> idea to have only GUI configuration for the panel.  Then you get cases
> like what happened to me..somehow my gnome-session and panel lost all my
> settings and reverted to their original state; worse, the settings I
> made weren't added.  I poked around in .gnome and found files with my
> old settings but I couldn't figure out why they weren't being read...
>   I finally wiped my settings and started over.  But gnome really needs
> text-file configurability.  It's a Linux program, right?....

oh sure you can edit the config files .. it's text ... it's just not however
meant to be editted by joe user ... it's in .gnome/panel.d/ ... 

I just always backup the panel.d directory if I wish to backup my config ...
if I want to edit it however I just run the panel with that config ... it's
far easier to change with the gui ... plus the gui does sanity checking ...

George

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