So I've been trying to get around a long-standing bug in gnome-panel with vertical panels and the application list. Some workarounds, patches exist that work, but still a PITA to fix up my own ebuilds to address it.
I received a comment on a bug tracker that gnome-panel likely will be deprecated in favour of "gnome-shell" in gnome 3.0 (aka 2.32) anyway, so forget an *upstream* commit to fix this problem that's been around for years. Well, my curiosity got the best of me, so I cherry-picked some ebuilds, an eclass (and even built a piece "by hand" since the ebuild failed to actually install anything...) and I got "gnome-shell --replace" to launch. What I found was the system became so slow as to be unusable... *but* that adding a new user, so to test on a clean slate as it were, gnome-shell works just fine. Very cool. So then, what's the *best way* to (re-) set my current user to get the goodness of a brand new gnome profile, but none of the hassle of reconfiguring all my apps? ;-) I see moving my /home folder to something else, deleting me, adding me back, with new /home and my groups... then moving a few very configured apps .configs over, but I thought there *might* be a sure way that would be easier... Cheers, -- Michael Higgins
