http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/21807/
For example, suppose you want to do a clean install of Karmic and would like to preserve your gnome-terminal, nautilus, and empathy settings, but nothing else. To backup a single one of the above settings by itself might involve a large number of steps. To backup and then restore your gnome-terminal profiles, for example, you would need to:

1. Backup the specific gconf files from ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal/.

2. run gconf-editor on the new system.

3. Navigate to /apps/gnome-terminal/global/profile_list

4. Edit the value of profile_list, click on "Add" and then enter the names of each of your profiles.

So in short, if a user doesn't wish to copy of their entire gconf settings, it quickly becomes a large production.

[13 votes] Solution #1: Create a simple GUI tool to backup/restore gconf, etc. settings


[5 votes] Solution #2: Add Backup/Restor functionality to gconf-editor


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