On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Christoph Eckert wrote:

>
>> I had the disastrous idea of trying to update kde 3.3 to 3.4 using
>> the new split ebuilds. I tried to reduce bloat by emerging only what
>> I thought I really use. Now I have lost ALL my normal user's
>>  preferences!!!!!
>
> AFAIK Gentoo allows to run two KDE versions independently. ~/.kde is
> probably a symlink. Perhaps you can copy over the config files from one
> ~/.kde3.3 to ~/.kde3.4.
 	jorge@jmaa ~ $ ls -al|grep kde
 	drwx------   4 jorge users     4096 Aug 31 22:11 .kde
 	drwxr-xr-x   4 jorge users     4096 Nov 24  2004 .kde3.2
 	drwxr-xr-x   5 jorge users     4096 Sep 15  2004 .kde3.3
 	-rw-------   1 jorge users      427 May 15 22:18 .kderc
 	-rwxr-xr-x   1 jorge users     1246 Jul 26 11:25 kde.desktop
 	~
No .kde3.4, as you see. (And I tried symlinking .kde3.4 to .kde3.3 before
posting.)  When kde started the first time, the wizard
showed its face and I told it to quit (didn't want to lose my preferences,
of course).
I don't know whether copying files is a solution. Are the formats
compatible? Anyway, previous upgrades didn't have this effect.

>
>> (Or is it time to give up on kde entirely?)
>
> Oh yeah, let's flame ;-) .
>
Flaming is not my idea of fun, but this situation is not acceptable,
either.  Of course, _maybe_ there is really some package missing...
I invested good time customizing KDE to my needs, and I simply cannot
work with crappy fonts and no keyboard shortcuts. The font of Konsole
was Luxi Mono, which I setted by editting the config file a few versions
ago, thanks to the help of someone in this list (yes, in version 3.4 it
is still impossible to chose it from the Settings menu...).
>
Thanks,

Jorge