On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 10:15:53AM -0500, Ted Gould wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 14:19 +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Note that this, the most significant issue in my opinion, could be easily > > addressed by restoring the lost functionality to the logout button. > > Are you suggesting that the logout button should have it's own dialog > and not use the gnome-session one?
gnome-session, as I understand it, has two. I think that button should (continue to) provide a single dialog with all of the options. > > Beyond that, I think it would be sufficient to include a program which users > > could run (manually) to restore their panel (session?) to the default. This > > way, when users ask "hey, how do I get that fancy new panel?" they get the > > answer "run restore-default-panel" rather than "rm -rf ~/.gconf" :-) > > $ gconftool-2 --unset-recursive /apps/panel > > I generally dislike any answer being "use the command line" but I think > in this case it's okay. That might be a useful script to have in the package. > > Would this be less objectionable than attempting to migrate automatically? > > Yes. Perhaps we should include a "gconftool --dump /apps/panel > > myfile.xml" and a "gconftool --load=/apps/panel myfile.xml" in there > also for undo. That's a good idea. While we're at it, we could add that info to an apport hook so that it gets attached to bug reports. -- - mdz -- Has not yet replaced the existing log out applet https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/274146 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
