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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: migration from 2.x
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-01-28 14:32:37
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On Monday 28 January 2002 15:11, Schmidt, John wrote:
> Monday, January 28, 2002 12:55, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > On Sunday January 27, 2002 09:51, dep wrote:
> > > greets, gang.
> > >
> > > question: has anyone given thought to configuration migration from
> > > kde-2.x to kde3?
> > 
> > kdelibs/kconf_update/README.kconf_update
> >
> > > i've configured. and when i fire up kmail, its configuration will be
> > > screwed, too -- a not inconsiderable thing, in that my isp gives me
> > > an assigned, 32-character password, among other things.
> >
> > Probably should bring that up on kmail@kde.org.  Each app needs to handle 
> > its own migration.
> 
> Does this mean the users KDE config files will now be under $HOME/.kde3?

No, it's always been under ~/.kde
If you see things under ~/.kde2 for KDE-2, that's a SuSE specific config.

> If there is (and should be) a migration program(s) it would be nice to have
> a separate branch, say kdemigr so that apps requiring config changes can
> place the program(s) there.  Then it would be easy to identify what apps
> have/had changes.  The utility could back up the current config before
> making any changes, then it could always be $HOME/.kde. 

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