on a freshly-created account, xfce4-panel gives unhelpful choices

[Steve Langasek]

Binary package hint: xfce4-panel

Booting a freshly-created natty xfce4 system (Linaro ALIP, not Xubuntu) with a fresh user account, I'm presented with the following dialog:

Welcome to the first start of the panel

Because the panel moved to a new system for storing the settings, it has to load a fresh initial configuration. Choose below which setup you want for the first startup.

Migrate old config - Use default config - One empty panel

xfce4-panel should be able to figure out that I don't have an existing "old config" to be migrated, and default instead to using the <ta da> /default/ config.

Strangely, if I choose "Migrate old config", I get a *different* panel than I do if I choose "use default config", even though I know this is a new empty account with no previous config to migrate.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Hi,

If you have a package installed like linaro-default-settings that contains a 4.6 panel config ($somexdgdir/xfce4/panel/panels.xml), then this dialog is normal, because you have an old config to migrate (it cannot use it as is).

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

FYI, the previous panel config was $somexdgdir/xfce4/panel/panel.xml and a rc file in $somexdgdir/xfce4/panel/ for each plugin. In 4.8, the config has been moved to xfconf, so it will be $somexdgdir/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml. There are still plugins not migrated to xfconf, so they still drop rc files in $somexdgdir/xfce4/panel/.

($somexdgdir being either $XDG_CONFIG_HOME or a dir from $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS)

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

> FYI, the previous panel config was $somexdgdir/xfce4/panel/panel.xml and
                                                               ^^^^ panels.xml of course

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Right, this is with linaro-default-settings installed. Should be treated as a linaro bug only, not an xfce4-panel bug - thanks!

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Tom, can you please take a look at updating our default settings to the current format?

[Tom Gall (tom-gall)]

Sure happy to.

[Tom Gall (tom-gall)]

linaro-alip-default-settings package in my bzr updated, currently testing.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

FYI, I just refreshed debian/copyright in xubuntu-default-settings/trunk to use dep5 so you shouldn't have to convert it each time you merge in the future.

[Tom Gall (tom-gall)]

Thanks Lionel!

Fix is successful.