On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Renaud MICHEL wrote:
On vendredi 29 octobre 2010 at 16:50, Catalin Florin RUSSEN wrote :
You cannot read the mind of an user, but you can install an agent (small
app) that register his habits, his installed, applications, his desktop
parameters in a central account and reproduce them on a new install, ie.
from version Mageia 2011 to Mageia 2012 :)
Desktop and other applications configuration are stored in the user's home
directory, so if you have a separate /home partition (which mandriva does by
default, I guess mageia will too), even if you re-install you won't lose
your configuration.
Ah, but you WILL if you're a newbie and, not knowing any better, format
that partition along with the others. (It does help that, IIRC, the default
is to not format it.) This would be a good place for a dialog informing
the user in nontechnical language of the consequences of formatting /home.
Dale Huckeby
