Some of you might have installed mint qiana or have a newer Version of cinnamon and want to save some settings as enabled applets list, panel heigth , enabled theme heigth and window manager and icon theme.

Thats relatively easy to do if you don`t trust any tweak tools, but this scripts:

#!/bin/bash
get_settingscript () {
echo '#''!''/'bin/bash
echo ""
echo gsettings set org.cinnamon.theme name "`gsettings get org.cinnamon.theme name`"
echo gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.interface icon-theme "`gsettings get org.cinnamon.desktop.interface icon-theme`"
echo gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.interface gtk-theme "`gsettings get org.cinnamon.desktop.interface gtk-theme`"
echo gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.wm.preferences theme "`gsettings get org.cinnamon.desktop.wm.preferences theme`"
echo gsettings set org.cinnamon next-applet-id "`gsettings get org.cinnamon next-applet-id`"
echo gsettings set org.cinnamon enabled-applets '"'"`gsettings get org.cinnamon enabled-applets`"'"'
echo gsettings set org.cinnamon panel-bottom-height "`gsettings get org.cinnamon panel-bottom-height`"
echo gsettings set org.cinnamon panel-resizable "`gsettings get org.cinnamon panel-resizable`"
}

if [ ! -f cinnamon-settings-restore.sh ]
then
get_settingscript > cinnamon-settings-restore.sh; chmod a+x cinnamon-settings-restore.sh
else
echo backup script does exist already - move it to a safer place and or execute it
exit
fi

it won`t backup your themes , applet configuration etc. but save their names in a script that you can easily reapply.
This might also be interesting to get the „correct“ etc/gconf .override for remastering/remixing/rebuilding your own Linux Mint based distro .

Some of the script lines do also work under unity if you replace cinnamon with gnome.
Hope it helps some people who are changing their Linux Mnt configuration very often.