Comment 15 for bug 274146

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.

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 - mdz