Bug#370156: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#370156: xfce4-panel: forgets all settings on upgrade

Simon Huggins huggie at earth.li
Sat Jun 3 19:43:20 UTC 2006


severity 370156 normal
tags 370156 +wontfix +upstream
thanks

On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 08:56:06PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Please check that upgrades at least marginally keep settings. The
> panel is completely reset after upgrade to the current version. This
> should not happen.

It is a shame that upstream have chosen not to migrate settings but this
is what they have done.  Writing support to convert users' settings from
the old style 4.2 configs whilst also dealing with the older 4.0 style
configs and migrating them all seemlessly to a 4.4 config is not trivial
however.

We did try to warn users of this via a NEWS.Debian in the xfce4 meta
package though I realise that you might not have that installed.

For reference it reads:
  This is the 4.4beta1 release of xfce.  If you are running xfce at the time
  you do this upgrade please consider restarting very shortly afterwards.

  This is a major upgrade and as such you will lose some of your config - there
  is no sane way for us to avoid this.  Notably the panel config will need to
  be changed.  Also as this is a beta please consider reporting any bugs to
  upstream first or to both the BTS and upstream's bugzilla at
  http://buzilla.xfce.org/

  Also #xfce and #debian-xfce on irc.freenode.net can be useful resources.

 -- Simon Huggins <huggie at earth.li>  Wed, 03 May 2006 17:37:50 +0100

Sorry but there's no good way to fix this.

The pain of resetting your panel preferences should be surpassed by the
sheer joy at getting multiple panels that you can have fixed or freely
movable and where possible transparent surely? :)

Simon.

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