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On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@×××××.at> wrote: |
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> greets ... |
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> today (at least in my timezone ;-) ) I saw gnome-3.6-related ebuilds |
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> coming up on my ~amd64 box ... |
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> I ran a backup (yes, experience ...) and emerged stuff ... so far it |
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> runs OK. |
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> There are changes and new features and I am still exploring stuff. |
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> The general question: is it a bug or a feature? ;-) |
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> for example Alt-leftclick doesn't allow me to move windows right now. |
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> bug? |
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No, it works that way. You could changed in previous versions with the |
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/apps/metacity/general/mouse_button_modifier key in gconftool-2, but |
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now it's gone. I don't know if anyone is working on bring it back. |
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> What I'd like to discuss: |
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> how to start over for a given user? For example, I want to get rid of |
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> old stuff from gnome-1.x/2.x or so (I think of my ~-directory, not the |
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> overall system). Or even bigger, does it make sense to drop stuff from |
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> all those dot-directories in ~ from time to time (e.g. at bigger |
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> GUI-upgrades) and only keep some important ones? |
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> For example I would keep core stuff like .gnupg .ssh .bashrc |
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> .thunderbird (in my case) ... but I am sure there is loads of stuff to |
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> get rid of. |
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> Maybe most of it doesn't make a difference (hdd-space is cheap anyways) |
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> and isn't even read anymore by recent versions of software. But maybe |
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> some files/dirs should get dumped and forgotten. |
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> Do you gentoo-users have any opinions on this? |
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> Does it make any sense to re-create my main user(-dir)? |
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I started over with a clean $HOME, and I moved back the non-GNOME |
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stuff (.ssh, .gnupg, .bash*, etc). But maybe it was overkill. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |