Bug#306321: gnome-core: No easy upgrade path from Gnome version in Woody.

[Jordi Mallach]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 07:32:56PM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote:
> There is no clear upgrade path from Woody if you use Gnome. After havin=
g
> upgraded and trying to log in the first time, I am greeted with a messa=
ge
> that basically says "Screw you, your old settings suck, I'm not even go=
ing
> to try to help you keep any of them", and then I have to reconfigure
> absolutely everything from scratch.
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> That is not good.

Actually, we do think it's a good thing.

We had migration scripts in the past in gnome-session, which would try
to migrate your panel, destop and other configurations from the old 1.4
desktop to GNOME 2.4 and 2.6.

The thing is, GNOME today isn't the same desktop it was in Woody times.
The focus of the GNOME desktop has changed so much that migrating a 1.4
configuration would result in such a messy, non-GNOME2ish setup that we
decided to force clean setups.

There is no sane way of migrating stuff. Many applets are gone, many
have new replacements, etc. and desktop settings have nothing to do with
the new counterpart.

We're not going to restore the migration scripts, they were impossible
to get right.

Thanks,
Jordi
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