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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Migration from KOffice 1 to KOffice 2
From:       Alexandra Leisse <leisse () kde ! org>
Date:       2009-02-19 12:18:47
Message-ID: f46093a70902190418x55fea2d2qd3a7c8166aef021d () mail ! gmail ! com
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Hei!

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:29, Inge Wallin <inge@lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> Now that we are approaching the final phase of the release cycle, it's
> probably a bit late, but I wanted to bring up an issue anyway that I think
> KDE has ignored a bit too much: Migration.
>
> If I run KOffice 2 apps, will they be able to read the settings from koffice
> 1? Probably there are many settings that are not relevant in koffice 2 from
> koffice 1 and vice versa, but those that are, are they stored similarly?
>
> And will I be able to switch back and forth between, say, kword 1.6 and kword
> 2.0 without getting my settings destroyed?
>
> What we don't want is that people who are koffice 1.x users, who try out
> koffice 2 get their old settings destroyed and then can't really switch back
> if they don't think koffice 2.0 is mature enough.

Is there a way of *visibly* telling the users how to backup their
settings directory? With the help of Dolphin, rather than the command
line? At least they won't break the whole thing then...

Alex
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