Re: A few questions about GNOME2

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Reinout van Schouwen <reinout cs vu nl> writes: 
> Eventually there should be a way to archive all settings of the entire
> GNOME desktop, thus creating the ability to switch "back in time". There
> could be one default backup containing the "factory default" settings but
> the user may create as many as he wants.

There was a "Ximian archiver" at one point that was supposed to do
this. It's easy enough to implement probably.

You can already revert to factory defaults with gconf by just
unsetting any setting. i.e. if you "gconftool-2 --unset /foo/bar" then
/foo/bar will end up with the factory default.

Havoc