On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 20:41, James Wilkinson wrote: > Basically, Gnome neither knows nor cares about partitions, nor if the > files it sees stayed on the disk over an upgrade or were restored from a > backup. [1] > > Upgrade is "supported" in as much as it's expected to work. So gconf is > supposed to be able to migrate settings to the new version. Exactly how > the old settings got there is not important, as long as they're > self-consistent. > > So yes, that should work. > > James (who zapped his old settings anyway because he wanted to see what > the new desktop was like). > > [1] This is not necessarily true. But it's true enough for this > discussion. Thanks a lot ! Nothing more to say ! Great community here ! Philippe -- Philippe, Chiangmai, Thailand