Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] no fun with rhytmbox

["Craig S. Kaplan" <csk cgl uwaterloo ca>]

On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Alex Lancaster wrote:
[...]
> What version of rhythmbox are you using?  Using a old (especially
> fairly old) configuration file is always a potential problem in any
> application (not just rhythmbox).  Starting from a clean setup is
> always safer especially if you haven't upgraded in several releases.
> Just: "mv ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/ my-old-rhythmbox-config" or somesuch.

Obviously that's an easy fix, but of course it's not something you'd
want to expect average users to know how to do.  And it's not really
ideal, either.  If you acknowledge that migrating config files between
releases is usually going to be a problem, then presumably rhythmbox
ought to detect what version the config files were for at startup, and
give the user the option of upgrading them.

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