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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: 3.4's defaults
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-04-27 9:29:02
Message-ID: 200504271129.02568.faure () kde ! org
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On Wednesday 27 April 2005 02:40, Brendan wrote:
> 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.

Why not just "move .kde/share/config out of the way" when you want to simply
restart with a clean new-user config? The rest is (supposedly) user data.

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
 
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