[wplug] Redhat, Fedora, and home folders...

[Bill Moran]

Jonathan S Billings <billings at negate.org> wrote:

> Bill Moran wrote:
> 
> > I've noticed that KDE and Gnome try to be good about keeping their configs
> > safe.  Gnome will make new . directory for each version to keep configs
> > seperate, for example.  Also, the XML format of their text configs makes
> > it very easy for an older version to ignore config options that it doesn't
> > understand.
> 
> You are a lot more trusting than I am.  I've seen gnome AND KDE get very 
> confused even on minor revision upgrades, because the config file wasn't 
> what it expected.  I ended up moving the dotfiles out of the way and 
> have the user recreate their setup from the defaults.

Admittedly, I haven't done this a lot.  I usually go forward with no
intention of going back.  I'm glad you pointed out that this fails more
often than I've seen.

> Just because they use XML doesn't mean that the data is backwards 
> compatible.

Agreed.  But it _should_ be.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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