Importing windows files and settings into Ubuntu

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 00:36 -0700, David Stone wrote:
> I read an interview with the developers of Firefox a few weeks ago and 
> they said that the feature that allowed the most people to start using 
> Firefox was the feature that imported settings and favorites from 
> Internet explorer. They also said that if the Linux distributions could 
> do the same thing for windows that more could use Linux. So what I'm 
> suggesting is that we make a utility that could copy things like the My 
> Documents, My Pictures, My Music etc. to the user's home folder and 
> organize them in a logical manner. 
> 
> Please share your thoughts on this, or let me know if such a utility 
> already exists.


I remember that this was discussed as a plan for Ubuntu, but that was a
long time ago, I never heard/read again of this project and don't know
what its status is (stalled or abandoned or...)


--
Vince