Re: galeon bookmark sidebar broken

[brownh hartford-hwp com (Haines Brown)]

> > I first tried simply to reinstall galeon by using apt-get --purge
> > remove, but it did not remove configuration files, and when I
> > tried to put those files aside for a fresh install, I began to run
> > into trouble because of other gnome application dependencies.
> 
> How does moving files cause application dependancies? Perhaps galeon
> has added a dependancy that you must resolve by installing another
> package?

Sorry I wasn't clearer. The apt-get --purge remove of galeon was not
removing configuration files (as I thought it should), and so I put
what appeared to be configuration files to the side, purged and
reinstalled. It had no effect, perhaps because I was not getting at
the right configuration files. The files so integrated various gnome
applications that I found either that I was endangering them or the
reinstallation had no effect. I ended damaging slightly the
configuration of one application (gterm). Not knowing what I was
doing, I backed out. I have no confidence in how to do a clean purge
and reinstallation of galeon, although that seems the obvious way to
address my problem. 
 
> > I would like to know where the problem resides in all the
> > gnome/galeon files, and how to effect a repair. 
 
> Have you tried the debian or galeon user's mailing lists?
> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/galeon-user

Yes, I subscribed to the galeon list and will do that, but I think my
question above nevertheless is a good one for this list. My
understanding of apt-get --purge remove is that it removes
configuration files and relevant directories, but the monolithic
nature of gnome off hand appears to prevent it.

Thanks.

Haines Brown