10.04 successfull horror story

[Ian Coetzee]

On 2010/05/10 12:42 PM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Basil Chupin wrote:
>    
>> On 10/05/10 18:29, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
>>      
>>>> Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>   :
>>>>
>>>> On 10/05/10 16:55, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>>>          
>>>>>> rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd
>>>>>>              
>>>>> Don't do that. Go look at all the software that stores data in
>>>>> those directories.
>>>>>            
>>>> And the supposed disaster of doing so would be......?
>>>> I have never given advice to anyone unless I have done it "to
>>>> myself"
>>>>          
>>> At least, you should have gave the advice to back those directories
>>> up. Then if the "rm" solved it, give the advice to restore one by
>>> one the important dot-dirs.
>>>        
>> You're right- I should have added "Reboot after doing the above".
>>
>> The directories are recreated when you reboot. The only thing missing
>> are the items with which you populate the panels with.
>>      
> I suppose they will be recrated when you relogin without a reboot as
> well.
>
> However if you remove the mentioned directories, you not only lose the
> panel configuration but also the configuration of many other
> applications. I don't think that is the intended effect. At least I
> wouldn't be too happy if I followed your advice and lost the
> configuration of Ekiga which seems to be stored in ~/.gconf/apps/ekiga/.
>
>
> Nils
>
>    
Sorry if this is sounding like a Nazi like statement, but arent you 
going a bit offtopic here?

Regards
Ian