[3764] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Minutes of 2002-03-05 meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Oliver Thomas)
Wed Mar 5 23:46:20 2003
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 23:46:15 -0500
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Cc: Oliver Thomas <othomas@mit.edu>, release-team@mit.edu
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
From: Oliver Thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU>
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My vote would be for the third option as well.
Oliver
On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 03:21 PM, Greg Hudson wrote:
> * Do nothing, and let everyone's preferences be reset.
>
> * Run the script silently; if it breaks, let the user lose.
>
> * Adopt the Debian approach, which (Greg thinks) is:
> - On first GNOME 2 login, ask if the user wants to convert prefs
> - If so, try to convert
> - Start the desktop stuff
> - Ask if the desktop looks okay as is
> - If not, blow away GNOME 2 prefs and log out; next login will
> have no user preferences
>
> The consensus tended toward the third option, but we felt we should
> ask Oliver.
