Thanks for your bug. The defaults are used every time your start gconf. Anyway such change should go upstream, the ubuntu desktop team doesn't have the ressources to work on low priority architectures changes like that. Closing the bug, please file one on bugzilla.gnome.org rather
** Changed in: gconf2 (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged => Wishlist Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected -- cope with and use gzipped XML gconf/defaults/%gconf-tree-*.xml https://launchpad.net/bugs/58289 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs