Archive for October 24th, 2006

Posted on October 24, 2006 - by jono

Heading to LinuxWorld

Right, down at LinuxWorld in London from later today until late Thursday. Plan of events:

• Tue Evening – Set up and a curry somewhere.
• Wed 25th Oct 2006 11.30am – 11.50am – Talk about Ubuntu on the IBM stand (free to view).
• Wed 25th Oct 2006 12.30pm – 1.30pm – Panelist on The Great Linux Debate about Virtualisation (free to view).
• Wed 25th Oct 2006 2.30pm – 4pm – Ubuntu UK Meet Up – taking place at the Ubuntu UK stand at ov14 in the .org Village (free to attend).
• Wed Evening – UK Linux & Open Source Awards Dinner (paid event).
• Thur 26th Oct 2006 – 11.50am – 12.20pm – Talk on Cracking Open The Linux Desktop in the conference (pay to view)
• Thur 26th Oct 2006 – 12.30pm – 1.30pm – Panelist on The Great Linux Debate about the GPL (free to view).

Other than these events, I will be kicking around the show and spending time at the Canonical booth at stand B57. Come over and say hi. Also check out the Jokosher stand at stand OV13 in the .org Village – come and see the 0.2 goodness.

Posted on October 24, 2006 - by jono

On transferring settings…

Why is it not easy and obvious to transfer settings from one computer to another? One example is transferring Evolution’s mail filters. There seems to be no easy approach. I want to click Backup Evolution's Settings and it generate a file which I can transfer to my second machine, click Restore Evolution's Settings, and everything be working. Its the same version of Evolution, and the same distro – stuff like this should be easy. But no, I instead enter the misery of setting up stacks and stacks of mail filters manually.

Imagine then expanding that to the desktop. Take a dump of GConf and provide some glue to restore everything. Surely that was the idea?