[Dextrose] Patch from 10.1.3 to robustify GNOME

[Bernie Innocenti]

On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 11:02 +0100, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> Excerpts from Bernie Innocenti's message of Wed Dec 15 23:50:45 +0100 2010:
> 
> > I still think we should also have a panic key at boot time for a more
> > drastic recovery:
> > 
> >   rm -rf ~olpc/.gconf ~olpc/.gnome2 ~olpc/.config ~olpc/.cache ~olpc/.local
> 
> Can we at least have a single-stage backup for this (except for
> ~olpc/.cache of course) so that users can copy back the "good" parts of
> their configuration?

Users who could do that can also delete the offending configuration
files manually. The panic key is intended for easy recovery.

Ok for me, but I don't think the backup will be used by a significant
portion of our user population.

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