f-spot on Lucid 64 bit

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Dienstag, den 09.03.2010, 05:47 -0700 schrieb Karl Larsen:
> For some reason there are two places that contain the proper files 
> to start f-spot. The system will not start but does tell you the 
> problem. It is this:
> 
> karl at Lucid:~$ f-spot
> It looks like you have 2 settings directories for f-spot 
> (/home/karl/.gnome2/f-spot and /home/karl/.config/f-spot). Remove one or 
> run f-spot with --basedir option
such things usually happen if you try to use the same /home with several
different releases of software. places software stores user data change.
usually apps care for that on upgrades with internal migration tools.
but if you switch releases back and forth with the same /home things
sill automatically get messed up ... 

i.e.:

app-x version 1 creates all config files in ~/.app-x ... at some point
when it switches to version 2  app-x gets integrated with some new
standard that requires it to write to ~/.config/app-x so a migration
tool is added ...

now if you use your /home with that version 2 the app will care that the
config gets moved to the new location ... next  time you use your /home
with the old version 1 app-x detects there is no configuration in
~/.app-x so it creates a new empty config (indeed, version 1 didnt know
about the new standards so it wont look in ~/.config/app-x) ... 
next time you boot a system that contains v2 (or even v3 because you
wanted to try that shiny development release) it will find the old
config in ~/.app-x and migrate it again ... which in the end lets you
end up with the formerly created empty config from v1 ...

in general, sharing /home with different releases of a distro is a very
bad idea if you jump back and forth between distro releases that
contains the same software. it will always lead to loss of personal data
and configuration due to the above.

ciao
	oli
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