Re: Nautilus: Lord Of The Desktop

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 03:50:30PM -0500 or thereabouts, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > It is the latest from red carpet,  all the exact same packages as on the
> > other workstations.  I lost patience,  nuked .gnome from the console, 
...
> Yes.  Sawfish and the panels can have all sorts of weird settings.  One
> of the wonderful things about GNOME is the way that 90% of the time,
> when you upgrade a piece of software, you have to delete all your
> settings.  Hopefully GNOME2 won't suffer from this so much..

Whilst I have core-dumped, crashed, warned, overflowed, hung, frozen,
misrendered, patched, rebuilt, rpm --rebuild'd, gdb'd, straced, 
bugzilla'd, bug-buddied, deb-bugs'd, documented and generally giggled 
my way through GNOME, I haven't ever had to nuke my .gnome/ directory.

Now, you may argue that perhaps I should have done and it might
have solved much of the paragraph above[1], but I am really unconvinced
it's necessary "90% of the time". 

Telsa

[1] And in the case where I managed to get both "Default" and "default"
settings for gnome-terminal through thinking I knew best and editing
text files on the blithe assumption case-sensitivity mattered (wrong),
I know it would have :)