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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: 3.4's defaults
From:       Brendan <mailinglist () endosquid ! com>
Date:       2005-04-27 0:40:50
Message-ID: 200504262040.50832.mailinglist () endosquid ! com
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On Sunday 24 April 2005 11:52 am, Erik Kjær Pedersen wrote:
> A number of people got their configuration files messed up. It is too time
> consuming to find exactly where the configurations are bad. We have used
> kde a long time, so the .kde directory may contain stuff going back to 2.1,
> so this is not too surprising. What I do is I move .kde to .oldkde, have
> people log in, and move whatever data that got lost, typically
> bookmarks.xml and kmailrc back. This is not too bad since it is nice
> occasionally to see the default settings. I do however find the layout of
> the .kde directory somewhat confusing with user data and configuration data
> mixed. If somehow user data and configuration data were better separated it
> might work better.

One thing to add to this that bit us big in the butt...

Kmail is now keeping its mail under .kde, and it was killing us,  as it seems 
so unnecessary and makes "moving .kde out of the way" so much harder...But, I 
have already had this conversation with the kmail-dev list.
 
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