[gentoo-user] KDE preferences

[gentoo-user] KDE preferences

[Jorge Almeida]

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!!!!!

This is the kind of thing that can't be explained by a careless use of
etc-update...

The only thing I can think of is that I didn't emerge some package
necessary to import preferences from previous version.
Is there some solution? (Or is it time to give up on kde entirely?)
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

[Christoph Eckert]

> 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.

> (Or is it time to give up on kde entirely?)

Oh yeah, let's flame ;-) .


Best regards


    ce



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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:07:45 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida 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!!!!!

rm -fr ~/.kde3.4
cp -a ~/.kde3.3 ~/.kde3.4


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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

[Jorge Almeida]

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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

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

[Jorge Almeida]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:07:45 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida 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!!!!!
>
> rm -fr ~/.kde3.4
> cp -a ~/.kde3.3 ~/.kde3.4
>
Nope.

Thanks anyway.

Jorge
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:38:24 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote:

> 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).

You didn't have any preferences, that's why the wizard started.

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:45:17 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote:

> > rm -fr ~/.kde3.4
> > cp -a ~/.kde3.3 ~/.kde3.4

> Nope.

Nope what? Nope, it didn't work? nope you didn't try it?

Your 3.3 preferences should have been transferred the first time
you started 3.4, they were for me. My best guess is that you didn't
emerge whichever component is responsible for this.


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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

[Norberto Bensa]

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Neil Bothwick wrote:
> My best guess is that you didn't
> emerge whichever component is responsible for this.

I think it is kdebase-startkde

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

[Jorge Almeida]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:38:24 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote:
>
>> 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).
>
> You didn't have any preferences, that's why the wizard started.
>
I know, but the point is that preferences should exist.
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

[Jorge Almeida]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:45:17 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote:
>
>>> rm -fr ~/.kde3.4
>>> cp -a ~/.kde3.3 ~/.kde3.4
>
>> Nope.
>
> Nope what? Nope, it didn't work? nope you didn't try it?
>
Didn't work.
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

[Jorge Almeida]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Norberto Bensa wrote:

> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> My best guess is that you didn't
>> emerge whichever component is responsible for this.
>
> I think it is kdebase-startkde
>
It was emerged.

Thanks,

Jorge Almeida
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

[Benno Schulenberg]

Jorge Almeida wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > rm -fr ~/.kde3.4
> > cp -a ~/.kde3.3 ~/.kde3.4
>
> Nope.

Try again (while logged out of KDE):

rm -fr ~/.kde3.4
cp -a ~/.kde3.3 ~/.kde3.4
rm ~/.kde
ln -s .kde3.4 ~/.kde

Your .kde is a dir, it should be a symlink.

Benno
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

[Jorge Almeida]

On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Benno Schulenberg wrote:

> Try again (while logged out of KDE):
>
> rm -fr ~/.kde3.4
> cp -a ~/.kde3.3 ~/.kde3.4
> rm ~/.kde
> ln -s .kde3.4 ~/.kde
>
> Your .kde is a dir, it should be a symlink.
>
Yes, I noticed that on my home box.
Will give it a try, when I can (I won't be accessing the other box
in person for a week or so...)

Thanks.

Jorge
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