By Aamina on Aug 30, 2010

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Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.6 will be shipped with a powerful desktop setting backup tool: Desktop Recovery, which is used to recover to the original style of applications, themes, applets and so forth.

Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.6 will be released with desktop recovery

will be shipped with a powerful desktop setting backup tool:This is the most important version for the three years of Ubuntu Tweak release cycle, because it's the first time that Ubuntu Tweak start to help make the Ubuntu Desktop more stronger. Last month, Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.5 was available for download.As a Ubuntu user, you always get excited when you see something new in Ubuntu ( Ubuntu new recommended) world. You play with new applications, new themes, new applets...After playing with them, you may find something break the desktop, and you don't know how to recover to the original style.That's what the Desktop Recovery will help you.Desktop Recovery is the tool integrated into Ubuntu Tweak to help people safely tweak with desktop settings, and never worry about how to go back.It has three basic actions:Backup: backup the current settings, keep as many as backups you want;Recover: recover to the backup;Reset: even you don't have any backup, you can also reset to the default settings;And what items does Desktop Recovery can backup? Here's it is:GNOME Desktop settings: Panel, Themes, Background;Application settings which use GConf: gedit, Compiz, Empathy, Nautilus...You know, almost every desktop applications;System components: Input method (ibus), network-manager, proxyYou can see, Desktop Recovery covers almost everything of desktop/applications.One thing You MUST know: it will only operate with the setting, not the files related with the setting. E.G. It will backup the setting about the background name, but not the real background file.Desktop Recovery comes with an easy-to-use interface, it has three categories of settings to backup: Desktop, Applications and System.When you select on category, you can backup all the sub-settings under it at once, of course you can also backup the individual setting by selecting it.Desktop Recovery supports unlimited backup items, so all the backup history will be listed. You can rename, or delete it.

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