Gnome panel preferences on file system somewhere

I've been wanting to clone my gnome panels to another user. I'm sure the info for which widgets, clocks, etc. is stored somewhere in ~ but I have idea where. Does anyone?

its in ~/.gconf/apps/panel. don't know if you can just copy the directory over though. just google 'how to use gconf' or something

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2. How to store custom files in preferences? I need to store some user-specific files (XML files, for example) somewhere. These files are naturally user preferences. So my idea is to store it using Preferences. But it seems like there is no such posibility in standard preferences. I believe many peoples have the same problem. Does anyone have solution?
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Preferences is supposed to keep all this data
handling away from you, so you shouldn't bother. If
you'd like to write a file, just write a file. You
could create a "Settings" object and serialize it.I understand your reasonings. But unfortunately I have requirements to use file system preferences both on Linux and Windows. My bosses think there are many problems because of registry. Don't ask what problems, they didn't say. I cannot change their requirements. I must to implement it.
Maybe somebody already solved this proplem. I will very grateful for help.
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do you use Preferences at all costs when they don't
do what you want to?I have requirements to implement saving of files in the same manner as saving of preferences. It may be different code from Preferences. But it will be the best to have the same code if it possible.
Any way I believe the need to save user-specific files as preferences is quite widespread.

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Last edited by trusktr (2010-08-13 10:39:21)

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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1408
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Does any one know of a Gnome Panel applet that shows the output of system command of your choice?
For people who Conky is a bit too much and they only want a simple piece of data available (like what is the current IP on ppp0 interface) like me.. this is a necessity.
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GNOME-Panel looks funny and the system is slow? [SOLVED]

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As you can se the toogle button looks weird to. Its not my theme nor the Murrine engine.
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sand_man wrote:
Hund wrote:It's been like 2 days since the problem ocurred. I can live with bugs like this, but it's seriosly driving me crazy not knowing whats cuasing it.
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[SOLVED] update removed menu items in lxpanel menu & in gnome-panel

when i start gnome-panel, the 'applications' drop down is empty, and 'system' no longer contains the 'administration' and 'preferences' items.
in lxpanel, the menu only shows 'run' and 'logout'.
i wanted to see if alacarte still showed things, so i ran alacarte from a terminal (which normally works)...
[chris: ~]$ alacarte
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 36, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 32, in main
app = MainWindow(datadir, version, sys.argv)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 48, in __init__
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File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 36, in __init__
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File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 60, in __loadMenus
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File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1918, in parse
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File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 924, in parse
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File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 211, in parseFile
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xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: no element found: line 1, column 0
naturally, starting alacarte by right clicking on gnome-menu -> edit menus also does nothing.
i looked at /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py with cat, and there is nothing super-obviously wrong with the script.
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[chris: ~]$ ls /usr/share/applications
abiword.desktop
alacarte.desktop
aldm-gui.desktop
assistant.desktop
at-properties.desktop
avahi-discover.desktop
banshee-1-audiocd.desktop
banshee-1.desktop
banshee-1-media-player.desktop
baobab.desktop
*and so on*
so those didn't vanish.
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Last edited by earthpig (2009-12-18 21:36:18)

so i saw this error message....
** (gnome-panel:4408): WARNING **: Error loading menu layout from "/home/chris/.config/menus/settings.menu": Error on line 1 char 1: Document was empty or contained only whitespace
the file was empty. and what do we do with broken config files in ~? why, we hide them, of course!
[chris: ~/.config/menus]$ mv settings.menu settings.menubackup
now gnome-panel works, but alacarte (menu editor) and lxpanel's menu is still busted.
now that i am getting somewhere, im gonna keep posting as i trace this down so others that may come across this same issue can benefit.
edit: renamed ~/.config/menus/lxde-applications.menu to .menubackup and restarted lxpanel, it works now.
edit2:
alacarte is giving me this...
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/chris/.config/menus/applications.menu'
and sure enough, pcmanfm told me that the file belonged to root.
sudo pcmanfm, navigated to that file, right click -> properties -> permissions -> changed owner to chris and group to users.
alacarte works now, too.
i think im going to go through and recursively make everything in each ~ folder belong to the username it should just in case permissions got jumbled somewhere/anywhere else.
just so i know: did this happen to anyone else that updated within the last 24 hours or so?
(so i can learn if it was something *I* did, or if it was something that came with the *update*)
Last edited by earthpig (2009-12-18 21:33:11)

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perhaps this should be under the pacman boards, but i'm not exactly sure when the issue started happening, as i've been off and on this past week.
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