I think - not perfectly sure about it - that removing desktop/gnome/interface did the trick. If anybode is interested in more concrete results i can do some further investigations because i've a backup of my buggy gconf dir.
Matthias > On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 15:53 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 14:57 +0100, Cyrille Moureaux wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > >I'm using gentoo-linux and have recently moved from gnome-2.10 to > > > >gnome-2.12. At the first glance everthing seemed to work fine, but i > > > >soon found out that not everthing behaves as expected. > > > > > > > >One thing is that the gnome-panel-2.12.2 dies every time i add a new > > > >item to it. The second problem i faced is briefly described at > > > >http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120006 . Both of them vanished > > > >after temporarly moving ~/.gconf to another location and restarting > > > >gnome. However, i decided to restore these directories to get my custom > > > >settings, mainly for evolution, back - unfortunately together with the > > > >mentioned problems. I tried '$ gconf-sanity-check-2', but that revealed > > > >nothing. > > > > > > > >Maybe someone in this list can help me to fix my ~/.gconf without > > > >loosing my personal settings ... > > > > > > > > > > > Presumably some of the settings related to the gnome-panel which you > > > inherited from a previous version are not playing nice with the new > > > version. The safest way would probably be to start fresh (move aside > > > your old ~/.gconf as you said you did, and let a new one be created) and > > > then copy only subdirectories of it from the backup to the new version. > > > For instance, if you replace ~/.gconf/apps/evolution altogether, you > > > should get back your Evolution settings. The panel settings are in > > > ~/.gconf/apps/panel, so maybe if you leave this one alone and copy the > > > rest around, you can end up with a setup where you have most of your old > > > settings back (except for your panel layout, which you'll have to > > > recreate). > > > > > > I hope this helps, > > > > > > Cyrille > > > > Well, at first thanks for your tipp. Unfortunately importing my > > evolution settings didn't work via > > $ cp -ax gconf_old/apps/evolution .gconf/apps > > and > > $ rm -r .gconf/apps/panel > > did not solve my problem. > > > > I guess that, for evolution, there are some additional dirs and or files > > wich should be copied too, but i wasn't able to find them for now. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gconf-list mailing list > > gconf-list@gnome.org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gconf-list > > > _______________________________________________ gconf-list mailing list gconf-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gconf-list