F9alpha and KDE4

[Kevin Kofler]

Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Well, KDE4 does not share config with old kde, and so you should kill
> your home .kde before starting.  That will give you the basic.

This is incorrect and very bad advice!

KDE 4 should work with most KDE 3 configuration just fine, and migrate the rest 
using kconf_update. Please file bugs (upstream at bugs.kde.org) for where 
settings should be migrated and aren't. (Plasma could probably use some 
kconf_update magic to import old Kicker or kdesktop settings. As the code is 
completely different, that's not so straightforward.)

But in any case, removing all of .kde is NOT a good idea. The worst that can 
happen is that the old settings just get ignored, so deleting all of them 
doesn't improve the situation. A lot of settings can be reused in KDE 4 with no 
trouble at all.

        Kevin Kofler