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Re: Gnome bug 94684



>>>> "CW" == Colin Walters <walters@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:

CW> Jules Bean <jules@jellybean.co.uk> writes:
>> Programs shouldn't gratuitously break configurations which worked.
>> When woody is released, and people upgrade en masse to it, they will
>> want their configurations to carry on working.

CW> In my experience, GNOME has had this problem since version 1.0; almost
CW> every time I've upgraded, something has broken.  Most of the time I've
CW> just given up and nuked ~/.gnome and ~/.gnome-private, and then
CW> recreated my desktop configuration.

CW> It doesn't seem very reasonable to expect the Debian packagers to try
CW> to fix upstream bugs like this.

Ha, somebody understand me :)

Christian



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