Building Safety Into Our Work

[David Green]

I think a backup/restore ability and a history/undo/redo ability would be
good, as others have mentioned.  Backup/restore would not only be useful for
safeguarding against messing up your system but also for setting up your
system how you like it when you do a fresh install.

On IRC, there have been worries about the difficulties of doing these
things. For example, the problem of having to know about all of the
gconf/dconf/compizconfig/dot files etc. would make it impractical to have
the application make a snapshot of the current configuration. I think a
solution to this problem is to have a really dumb frontend that delegates
these responsibilities to plugins.

I created a quick mockup plugin API to demonstrate this:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/610848/

Basically, rely on plugins to modify the configuration and require them to
be able to backup/restore the configuration of their specific domain.

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Jono Bacon <jono at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> Today on the #ubuntu-power-users channel LaserJock raised a really
> important point: if we have essentially two broad sets of users
> (end-users who rely on the out-of-the-box desktop experience, and power
> users who want to trick out their systems), how do we protect end-users
> from damaging their system by using tools designed for power users?
>
> I think this is an important topic of conversation, and I think the
> combined insight of the community could come up with some good ideas.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>        Jono
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