I wasn't trying to debate. You problely know whats best anyway. Just pointing out that firefox, deskbar, desktop-search and the like use the same setting, so i figured (with all my lack of technical insights to how all this is setup) that changing this would break xubuntu.
However if i understand you correctly, they can and should use seperate configuration files. Well, that sounds perfect to me :-). -- Gnome's Places menu starts Konqueror instead of Nautilus https://launchpad.net/bugs/35997 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs