On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 16:57, Miles Bader wrote: > As far as I could tell, _none_ of my settings were preserved, and I got all > the defaults (I suppose some were, but they weren't the visually obvious > ones!). > > I think much of this might be due the conversion script not finishing, so I'm > not sure whether it's worth going into tons of detail (but I'll try a bit > anyway).
Yes, that is very likely the case. If the conversion script fails, and you log out and log back in again, you will just get the default GNOME 2 desktop. No further attempt at conversion will be made. If you want to try again, just do: rm -rf ~/.gnome2 gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /desktop gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /system > * The panels I got bore no resemblance to what I had before; in particular, > before I had 3 corner panels of various sizes, in the NW, SE, and SW > corners, with launchers, applets, etc. Afterwards, I had just a top-edge > `menu panel' (don't want that), and a bottom-edge panel with just a > task-list and a `window nav' (don't know the name) applet. I'll need to see your .gnome directory. Some of the panel settings aren't possible to transition (GNOME 2 doesn't have aligned panels). So it may be best for you to just discard the transition and start over. I personally had a very highly customized GNOME 1.4 setup. You know what I found though when I switched over to GNOME 2? I found the default setup was just very *usable* out of the box. I didn't need to do much in the way of tweaking to be very satisfied with the experience. > I think some of the applets I used to use weren't included with gnome2, > so that might explain some things (and the gnome-applets [?] package > didn't get upgraded until the _next_ time I ran aptitude, for some > reason, though it didn't show up as broken or held the first time), > though not the launchers. That could also explain it. The panel might remove applets which don't exist. > * My background image wasn't preserved. This was a silly bug, now fixed in CVS. > * None of my gnome-terminal settings seem to have been preserved (roughly: > colors, scroll-bar pos, menu-bar-hidden). I just tested the menu bar and scroll bar preferences; they were transitioned correctly. The colors didn't seem to be, but it looks a bit complex for me to try to fix right now. > * Some `general' UI settings weren't preserved; the only one I remember > right now is that before I had `icons only' for task-bars, and afterwards > I had icons&text. task-bars? I'm not sure what you mean here. > * At first it seemed to have tried to preserve my theme, but failed -- it > was really wierd, widgets seem to be randomly using either my old dark > theme or the default light-background theme. I tried to use the > control-center to change it, but that didn't appear to work; later I > realized this was because I had a `.gtkrc-2.0' file that pointed to my > old gnome1 theme (I needed this before for gnome-terminal, which was > updated to 2.0 before everything else), and that some things were using > that, and some things were using the default theme. Ok, I don't know enough about themeing to say anything useful here. > Deleting the file and using the control-center to change things > "properly" fixed this. [BTW, the desktop icon that's supposed to invoke > gnomecc didn't work, because there was no program called `gnomecc' -- > only `gnome-control-center'] This is one thing that I explicitly made sure to fix. It should have replaced all .desktop files which had Exec=gnomecc with a .desktop file which does Exec=nautilus preferences:// If this didn't work, I need to see your ~/.gnome2/debian-upgrade.log and your .gnome dir. > * My start-up settings weren't preserved: before I _didn't_ run the > `desktop' program, but afterwards I got nautilus doing that; also before > I had an entry that ran `xrdb', which wasn't preserved. I am strongly suspecting now that you just got the default GNOME 2 session. > Well, that's all that comes to mind right now; if I remember anything else > that seems important I'll send a followup. Thanks a lot for your feedback. I hope we can try to resolve most of the issues you found.
