Saving my panels before upgrade

[Philippe]

On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 22:26, Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 20:39 +0700, Philippe wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I will upgrade (fresh install) from FC2 to FC3. I know how to backup  my
> > datas, but what about my desktop configuration. I mean, I have a top
> > panel full of icons and applets , and a bottom panel also.
> > Which files I must save and copy back to my gnome desktop on FC3, so I
> > will have the same desktop and panels at the end ?
> > 
> > Philippe
> > -- 
> > Philippe, Chiangmai, Thailand
> > 
> If you have a /home partition that does not get overwritten the
> configuration files for your desktop should not get changed.  I have
> done this a couple times.  Twice I did a restore from a tar file of my
> home directory, and another time I did a reinstall with /home as a
> separate partition.  In all 3 cases the desktop stayed as I had it
> customized. 

Unfortunately, I dont have yet a /home partition. Well, anyway, I can do
a fresh instal, and after override /home/me with my backup. I am just
afraid of some gconf difference between FC2 and FC3. But I can give it a
try.

Thanks

Philippe
-- 
Philippe, Chiangmai, Thailand