On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 15:15 +0000, Colin Walters wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Ross Burton <r...@burtonini.com> wrote: > > > > > > Not providing a migration path will probably delay adoption of > > dconf/gsettings into Debian because Debian tries it's hardest to > > preserve user configuration, even during an update. There are long and > > scary scripts which can migrate gnome-panel 1.x to 2.x in Debian... > > I think we need some migration for things which are important (fonts) > and/or highly user-visible (background) at a minimum. Now if we > migrate gnome-panel then clearly those scripts have to get pretty > scary. > > So the question isn't "do we migrate or not", but "how much do we migrate". > > -- Colin, who long ago wrote the first bits of those scripts, but if > tasked with it this time would probably write them in something better > than Perl
Can dconf import exported gconf xml? if so then its a non-issue and a migration script can easily be written using gconftool and dconftool if not I would suggest supporting that jamie _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list