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Bug#387921: why should we document that we removed gnome1?



On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 03:16:44PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure why the information that we stopped distributing gnome1
> should be part of the release notes - I don't expect so many users have
> gnome1 installed that this is an issue?

Maybe a general section on how to have your configuration be "upgraded" to
the default configurations provided by new Gnome (or KDE) versions would be
good. People might not notice that unless they remove (or move away) the
following directories from their $HOME they will not get the new
configuration shipped from Gnome (include some nice things like the "update"
applet): 

drwx--S---  4 jfs jfs 4096 2006-11-05 12:09 .gconf
drwx--S---  2 jfs jfs 4096 2006-11-05 12:09 .gconfd
drwx--S---  7 jfs jfs 4096 2006-10-03 21:11 .gnome
drwx--S--- 15 jfs jfs 4096 2006-11-05 12:01 .gnome2
drwx------  2 jfs jfs 4096 2005-08-23 10:37 .gnome2_private
drwx------  2 jfs jfs 4096 2005-10-08 12:10 .gnome_private

Moving those will, of course, remove your preferences for the Desktop but for
users that have not tinkered with them and want the default Debian
preferences (including default fonts and behaviour) they are really not
losing much.

Regards

Javier

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