[gentoo-dev] Desktop Configuration Guide

[gentoo-dev] Desktop Configuration Guide

[Thilo Bangert]

Hi,

in the last paragraph before chapter 4 (Mail), the document says to 
delete ~/.kde and ~/Desktop

this is not necessary and can result in the loss of important data! 
many/all kde programms save their data & settings in ~/.kde 
(korganizer, kaddressbook etc) and this might get lost.

it would be safer to say to delete ~/.kde/share/config/kmixrc and 
~/.kde/share/config/kmix:* (sessions)

-- 
regards
Thilo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Desktop Configuration Guide

[Craig M. Reece]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 01:58:59AM +0100, Thilo Bangert spoke thusly:
> Hi,
> 
> in the last paragraph before chapter 4 (Mail), the document says to 
> delete ~/.kde and ~/Desktop
> 
> this is not necessary and can result in the loss of important data! 
> many/all kde programms save their data & settings in ~/.kde 
> (korganizer, kaddressbook etc) and this might get lost.
> 
> it would be safer to say to delete ~/.kde/share/config/kmixrc and 
> ~/.kde/share/config/kmix:* (sessions)
>

Since you brought this up... There is a little problem with leaving the
.kde directory there. The system will completely step on it when it
creates a .kde2 (or possibly .kde3?) directory and then turns .kde into
a symlink pointing to .kde2 (I did lose all my kde old settings until I
could get access to my backup). This is a huge pain if you have kmail
setup with lots of providers and you leave the addressbook in the
default location (I already learned my lesson about those two apps so no
loss for me this time ;). Also, konqueror stores all of its cookies,
bookmarks, cache, etc. in the .kde tree (I now use Galeon [by the way,
thanks to Gentoo, I could never get this to compile myself before] so
this also isn't a big deal to me anymore).

Re: [gentoo-dev] Desktop Configuration Guide

[Thilo Bangert]

> Since you brought this up... There is a little problem with leaving
> the .kde directory there. The system will completely step on it when
> it creates a .kde2 (or possibly .kde3?) directory and then turns .kde
> into a symlink pointing to .kde2 (I did lose all my kde old settings
> until I could get access to my backup). This is a huge pain if you
> have kmail setup with lots of providers and you leave the addressbook
> in the default location (I already learned my lesson about those two
> apps so no loss for me this time ;). Also, konqueror stores all of
> its cookies, bookmarks, cache, etc. in the .kde tree (I now use
> Galeon [by the way, thanks to Gentoo, I could never get this to
> compile myself before] so this also isn't a big deal to me anymore).

jepp, i fell over that one too - but i would say it's my own fault, i 
could have kept backups....

for most users all this will not be too dangerous, as they just started 
their system up. others, perhaps migrating from a different distro, are 
much more at risk

i just think it is very wrong to suggest to delete ~/.kde to fix a bug

-- 
regards
Thilo