Thomas: > Am I right with this view: > The purpose of the gnome-cleanup script is, to wipe things > from the config which changed in incompatible way with > the upgrade of GNOME.
No. This script is mainly provided for support services. There are certain things that can cause a user's GNOME configuration to become corrupt, and this can often lead GNOME failing to start, or work properly. Support services often tells users to run the gnome-cleanup script to return their configuration to the default values. While not elegant, this often fixes common problems that are reported. In other words, you typically want to clean up a specific user's configuration without rebooting the machine. Brian > Other Questions: > > o Centralized HOMEs may share GNOME settings between mutiple > GNOME-Versions? This is possible, though typically when users want to run gnome-cleanup, they understand that this will restore their GNOME defaults for all machines that share the same $HOME directory. > o Would an instand "upgrade" or even "downgrade" cleanup be > better done instantly at Login-time. > Machine-centric general cleanup could be still be necessary > and be done by an SMF-script I don't think this relates. > o what if a GNOME-version is downgraded by simply rebooting > an old Boot-Environment. Then possible new configs in > user HOMEs hit old GNOME bits. Would then be a downgrade > of the config needed? GNOME tries to be compatible between versions in terms of its configuration, so downgrading should not be needed. However, some people run into problems when they use unsupported versions of GNOME (such as when they use the latest & greatest development builds). These aren't supported, and are not guaranteed to be compatible, and may corrupt your configuration. Brian
