Bug#647924: gnome-panel: lost all configuration after upgrade

[Witold Baryluk]

On 11-07 22:31, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> severity 647924 wishlist
> tag 647924 wontfix
> thanks
> 
> Le lundi 07 novembre 2011 à 20:50 +0100, Witold Baryluk a écrit : 
> > I had pretty complex gnome-panel setup,
> > with 3 panels, about 12 applets, and many
> > activators. After upgrade and logging to my account
> > using gdm3 with "GNOME tryb zastępczy" (fallback mode, in pl_PL locales),
> > i was presented with two black panels, with standard layout
> > of applets.
> > 
> > Disaster.
> > 
> > Fortunately I have a backup of my system, and will try to recover
> > gnome-panel settings.
> > 
> > Is this known problem, or only me?
> 
> This is deliberate. The gnome-panel 3.x panels and applets configuration
> is not compatible with the gnome-panel 2.x in several ways (applets
> naming, location on the panels). Add to that the extreme complexity of
> the panel settings, a migration script is not really feasible.

I do not really see technical problems with implementing at least
approximate migration of what user had, and leave compatible
(maping them to new names) known applets, and map properly location.
I guess GNOME developers are just lazy :(


> Worse, it
> would lose the top-right menu, hence losing the ability to logout.
This is argument? Why to remove "System" menu from top-right menu
in the first place. If you want to not have System menu
in this applet, simply make it configurable and/or provide
alternative simple applet which do/don't have this single entry.
This way both new users (with Programs/Places on left + indicator applet on right),
and old users (whetever configuration they had, most probably programs/places/system,
or separate logout/poweroff buttons).


> 
> All in all this is not going to change.
> 

So where is information in changelogs about this?
Where is information after first login that settings will be lost?
Why I cannot add teatime (2.8.0-6) and computertemp (0.9.6.1-1.1) or
service-discovery-applet (0.4.4-4.1) applets? I guess there is
dozen other nice and usefull applets already in Debian
which will not working? Check... giplet - not working,
gnome-netstatus-applet - not working, hamster-applet - not working,
netspeed - not working.

Is this a joke?


Sad,
Witek


-- 
Witold Baryluk