[gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: kwin is crashy - solved

[Duncan]

Hemmann, Volker Armin posted
<200509280230.14358.volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>, excerpted
below,  on Wed, 28 Sep 2005 02:30:13 +0200:

> Hi,
>
> I removed the .kde* files/directories left from my earlier athlon-xp
> installation and everything is fine now.f

Thanks for reporting your fix.

Of course, people like me get a bit frustrated with such reports, because
we want to know /what/ /file/ caused the problem (we customize our KDE to
the point where removing the entire customization, as this does, would be
unthinkable), and once narrowed down to the file, preferably /what/ /line/
in the file caused the issue.  I'm always copying the config to a backup,
then removing half of it to see if the problem still exists, then either
putting that back and removing the other half, or removing half of what
remains... etc, until I reduce the problem to a single file and usually a
single line within the file, when I suspect my config may be the issue. 
Of course, not everyone has the patience to do such things, but when the
alternative is possibly days recustomizing things, as it can be for
someone with a heavily customized config, a few minutes or hours
spent isolating the problem to a single line in a single file is really
the /easy/ way out!  =8^)

In any case, however, getting the feedback that the problem was solved,
and that it was a config issue, is far more helpful than not ever knowing
/what/ the problem was, so thanks for the fix report!

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