Some recent changes

[Matthias Clasen]

On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 17:54 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 10/20/2009 05:33 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > As I said upthread, defaults are overwritten by package updates. 
> >
> > If you have never changed anything on your desktop, you will receive the
> > changed defaults. If you have spent hours customizing every aspect of
> > your desktop, those changes are in your personal GConf database and will
> > not be overwritten by a package update.
> >
> > The situation is a bit different for the padding changes, since we have
> > added new GConf keys here that did not exist before. Therefore, nobody
> > has an explict value of 0 in their personal GConf database, and
> > everybody will get the padding.
> >   
> 
> Does there exist an export/import tool for gconf database so that users
> that would want to keep the old/their settings can use to export them
> then just simply import it after upgrade/fresh install. That would keep
> them happy and you guy's could introduce new changes targeted at new to
> linux audience with less hassle.. 
> 
> If such an tool does not exists what's the recommended way of backing up
> system wide/personal gconf databases so we can document that somewhere..

I recommend gconftool-2 --help-load. 
It is unfortunate that these options are not documented in the man page.