KDE settings

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Sun Jul 24 06:48:49 UTC 2005


On 7/24/05, BRUCE STANLEY <bruce.stanley at prodigy.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> --- Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 7/23/05, BRUCE STANLEY
> > <bruce.stanley at prodigy.net> wrote:
> > > Your millage may vary, but I have found that if
> > > you do an 'Upgrade' either of Linux, or of a new
> > > release of KDE to the same version of Linux,
> > > you should rename you ~/.kde  directory and let
> > > KDE recreated it again.  You will have to redo
> > > all of you settings.  If you don't do this,
> > > you 'MAY' have weird problems with the KDE
> > > desktop.  I have been told that this can be due
> > > to new versions of things changing the way they
> > > set up their startup/default settings.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Then I could probably move the individual program's
> > files one by one
> > and try to avoid problems?
> >
> > Also, If I install another distro in it's own
> > partition, but mount the
> > same /home partition, will the KDE from the new
> > distro recognize the
> > settings that I set it Fedora? If, say, they are
> > both the same version
> > of KDE (3.4)?
> >
> > Dotan
> 
> Not sure what you mean about moving individual
> program files, but if they are 'rpm' base installs,
> you could mess up your rpm database.
> 
> The problem with install another distro (I assume
> you mean like replacing Mandrake with Fedora as
> an example), even with the same revision of KDE
> (note I said revision, e.g  3.4), is that you don't
> know how the other Distro might have changed things
> to suite its own way of doing things before releasing
> the same rev of KDE.  It might still work, but
> then again....  If it doesn't, you can alway rename
> the ~.kde  dir and redo all the settings....  :-(
> 
> 

Could I tell KDE in Fedora to use ~/.KDEfedora as it's settings
folder? And in Mandrake (for example) to use ~/.KDEmandrake?

Also, if I install KDE from the rpm, instead of from the distro, would
that be preferable? I would do that both for Fedora and Mandrake, from
the same rpm. Then could I use the same ~/.KDE folder?

Dotan
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