Bug#647924: gnome-panel: lost all configuration after upgrade

[Josselin Mouette]

Le lundi 07 novembre 2011 à 23:49 +0100, Witold Baryluk a écrit : 
> On 11-07 22:31, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > This is deliberate. The gnome-panel 3.x panels and applets configuration
> > is not compatible with the gnome-panel 2.x in several ways (applets
> > naming, location on the panels). Add to that the extreme complexity of
> > the panel settings, a migration script is not really feasible.
> 
> I do not really see technical problems with implementing at least
> approximate migration of what user had, and leave compatible
> (maping them to new names) known applets, and map properly location.
> I guess GNOME developers are just lazy :(

Listen, the panel is not even the default desktop with GNOME 3.0. If you
want to waste your time writing a porting script, please go ahead, but
you’d better ensure it’s really reliable, and you will find it very hard
for little benefit.

> Why I cannot add teatime (2.8.0-6) and computertemp (0.9.6.1-1.1) or
> service-discovery-applet (0.4.4-4.1) applets? I guess there is
> dozen other nice and usefull applets already in Debian
> which will not working? Check... giplet - not working,
> gnome-netstatus-applet - not working, hamster-applet - not working,
> netspeed - not working.

Applets need porting to the new libpanel-applet API. Those who haven’t
been ported are being removed from the archive.
Here, you can really help if there are applets of interest for you:
porting them is a relatively easy task.

Cheers,
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 .''`.      Josselin Mouette
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