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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@×××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Copying settings from Konqueror-3.5 to 4.3
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:46:44
Message-Id: hbvb0f$ih7$2@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Copying settings from Konqueror-3.5 to 4.3 by Etaoin Shrdlu
1 * Etaoin Shrdlu (Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:35:48 +0100)
2 >
3 > On Thursday 22 October 2009, Alex Schuster wrote:
4 >
5 > > > I did
6 > > >
7 > > > cp -a .kde3.5 .kde4
8 > > >
9 > > > and all the settings (not just only konqueror's) were picked up.
10 > >
11 > > That did not work for me, all windows had no window title then. But it
12 > > worked fine for partial applications when I copied just their data over.
13 > > For konqueror, that would probably be share/config/konquerrorrc and
14 > > share/apps/konqueror/.
15 >
16 > Yeah, I've seen mixed outcomes when doing that. I was probably lucky.
17 >
18 > What I really did was:
19 >
20 > 1) save the "vanilla" .kde directory that was created when kde4 first started
21 > up, to have a safe rollback in case something goes wrong
22 >
23 > 2) cp -a the .kde3.5 dir to .kde4, as said
24 >
25 > 3) check that things were mostly correct, and if not rollback to the saved
26 > .kde dir I created in step 1
27
28 ~/.kde is a symlink to ~/.kde3.5. So there is nothing to backup or
29 restore.
30
31 Thorsten

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