desktop switching tool still buggy

[Chuck Mead]

rgleeson wrote:
> Can anyone reproduce this?
> 
> 
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=122260
> 
> * This report is based on the *updates* to switchdesk of May 2/04.  
> 
> Description of problem:
> Switchdesk tool *worked* after updates, but only the first time.  I
> switched to KDE and it defaulted to KDE.  
> 
> However, when I tried to switch the default back to Gnome via KDE, it
> kept going back in to KDE on each log in.  
> 
> Logging out and manually choosing Gnome brought me back in to Gnome. 
> I used the desktop switching tool from Gnome and defaulted to Gnome.  
> 
> But, it still goes to KDE, whether or not I choose the "current
> display" option or not.
> 
> So, the desktop switching tool is still buggy.

I even can't get it to work the first time. When I use it from the 
command line this is what I see in the error output from Python:

[root at stealth root]# switchdesk
Red Hat Linux switchdesk 4.0
Copyright (C) 1999-2004 Red Hat, Inc
Redistributable under the terms of the GNU General Public License
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/share/switchdesk/switchdesk-gui.py", line 36, in ?
     from backend import *
   File "/usr/share/switchdesk/backend.py", line 18
     PROGNAME = @NAME@
                ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax


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