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On Thursday 22 October 2009 17:45:36 Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> Etaoin Shrdlu writes: |
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> > On Wednesday 21 October 2009, Mick wrote: |
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> > > Maybe I am getting lazy - but wouldn't mind all my ftp, webdav and ssh |
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> > > settings under the Network places to have been carried over into KDE4. |
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> > > How do I go about copying them over? |
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> > I did |
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> > cp -a .kde3.5 .kde4 |
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> > and all the settings (not just only konqueror's) were picked up. |
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> That did not work for me, all windows had no window title then. But it |
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> worked fine for partial applications when I copied just their data over. |
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> For konqueror, that would probably be share/config/konquerrorrc and |
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> share/apps/konqueror/. |
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I also found odd inconsistencies copying .kde3.5 to .kde4 |
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Kopete has twice reordered my contacts |
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akonadi integration with kmail was flakey |
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system tray icons come and go as they please |
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and various other oddities that don't happen with new users |
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It would seem that a largely vanilla 3.5 config migrates to 4 with low risk. |
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As the old config is more and more modified, the odds of 100% success reduce. |
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As always, YMMV |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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