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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [systemsettings] [Bug 389568] button/command to reset kde settings
From:       <bugzilla_noreply () kde ! org>
Date:       2018-01-30 16:33:39
Message-ID: bug-389568-17878-4hrzeszWtT () http ! bugs ! kde ! org/
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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389568

--- Comment #13 from thomas.meschede@ilr.tu-berlin.de ---
(In reply to David Edmundson from comment #12)
> When you want to delete dolphinrc, what are the current problems with
> configure dolphin -> defaults?

My motivation from this came mainly from when I upgrade my system. Very often,
an upgrade kills some configuration in my desktop. This has to do with
customizations but also just "normal" KDE configurations get messed up
sometimes. In these situations where I use my old home directory on a bew
system I would like to reset the KDE desktop mainly to a state as if it was
newly installed. I do NOT want to click through every available KDE app to find
the default button such as:

* the PIM suite
* plasma-desktop
* remove plasma-applets myself,
* kate settings
* akonadi
* baloo
* krunner
* and many more....

I also disagree, that you should click through every application yourself.
Things like akonadi, baloo, PIM, dolphin are so deeply integrated with KDE, you
sometimes don't even know why something isn't working. For example if the
search
doesn't work, is it baloo or dolphin? A "normal" user has no idea what to do
here. The same thing counts for Akonadi integration with krunner, dolpin, PIM.

That a lot of poeple need something like this can be seen on pretty much every
cellphone that have reset menus. Isn't there also plasma-mobile? Is there maybe
already a solution available for this? Also maybe you want to have a button to
delete private information from a computer similar to the firefox browser

As Nate Graham already suggested, I also think it should be configurable
what to delete and what not (similar to the old firefox dialog where one could
individually checkmark what to delete (such as history, passwords, layout,
addons, personal data, cache).

something like this:

DELETE KDE CONFIGURATIONS DIALOGUE:

[X] - personal data and language configurations
[X] - accounts (all akonadi related)
[X] - cache (baloo search index for example)
[X] - desktop layout configurations
[X] - PIM
[X] - App configurations
[X] - File associations  (where do you delete that btw???)
[X] - keyboard shortcuts
[X] - etc...

[[[DELETE]]] -> are you sure? -> yes/no


which categories would be chosen is open to discussion I guess. But 
a start would be to just choose desktop layout and akonadi for example.

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