<div class="gmail_quote">2011/5/22 TualatriX <<a href="mailto:tualatrix@gmail.com">tualatrix@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Great! Sounds like a Zeitgeist (timeline) based backup/restore tool. As it is a default component since Natty, it will be easy to use it in Ubuntu Tweak. I will have a try. </blockquote></div> That's what i thought. Like i mentioned in another thread here, i was also thinking about using bazaar as the backend for for these states. Because most of the settings are just dconf XML files it would be quite doable to just version every change in the background. Some of these then get pushed to Zeitgeist to enable the "casual" power user to easily revert parts of the config or the whole set. An "advanced" power user could, in addition, use the full power of bazaar to revert single steps, make a patch of a set of configs, push them to Launchpad and merge on another PC. It would then be possible to make a personal PPA to store most of the GUI config in and just grab it on the next install. Even with branches for different systems/use-cases. I know this might seem overly complicated, but if we use these powerful existing tools for saving the settings, we can easily provide a simple save/revert system an amazing playground for more advanced users. And the best is: no one not interested, even has to know it ;) <-