Comment 14 for bug 274146

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?

> 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.

> 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.

  --Ted