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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] bad mood in german kde usenet group
From:       Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer () gmx ! at>
Date:       2008-08-03 19:48:54
Message-ID: 200808032148.54573.kevin.krammer () gmx ! at
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On Sunday 03 August 2008, Sven Burmeister wrote:
> Am Sonntag 03 August 2008 11:52:36 schrieb Ingo Klöcker:
> > Anyway, kconf_update only works with existing configuration files. If
> > the old KDE 3 settings live in ~/.kde and the new KDE 4 settings live
> > in ~/.kde4 then it is impossible for kconf_update to do its work
> > because it knows nothing about the old settings in ~/.kde. I guess the
> > distributors have made provisions for copying ~/.kde to ~/.kde4 (or did
> > KDE already make those provisions?), but maybe they've missed
> > something.
>
> There was a discussion about this on opensuse-kde mailinglist. AFAIR it did
> not work to copy .kde to .kde4.

If I am not mistaken, KDE4 still uses .kde as the user level base directory 
but some distributions patched it to use .kde4 instead in which case they are 
responsible for providing an upgrade path to their users.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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