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

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regards
Thilo