Critical info (was Upgrading...)
Jonathan Hutchins
hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Fri Jan 5 11:36:10 CST 2007
On Friday 05 January 2007 09:18, Brian Kelsay wrote:
> Hopefully this [inconsistent file locations] will all get straightened out
> as we move on to KDE 3.5.x ...
Running for several months now as an optional upgrade on Mandriva. Current
kubuntu is also 3.5.x...
I'm not comfortable with the way KDE is storing certain information, but I've
discussed that with the appropriate people and I really don't have a concrete
alternative.
There is a collection of important, version- and even program- independent
information that is an essential part of a user's identity: Their email
store, their address book, and their log-in info for various services like
mail accounts, IRC, and IM. Too often, all that has to be re-entered by hand
if the user does a new install, changes distros, moves to a different
workstation, etc.
Packages are getting better at dealing with multiple possible versions of
config files, but it's still common to have to remove all the old KDE
configuration files (all of ~/.kde/) because something is conflicting or
causing problems. I'm sure this is true of Gnome as well.
I don't know what the answer is, but there oughta be a better way.
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