Migrating kde data from kde3 to kde4

[Dotan Cohen]

On 14 June 2010 00:03, Stan Goodman <stan.goodman at hashkedim.com> wrote:
> I too keep /home on a separate partition, and have thought about keeping
> the same /home partition intact across upgrades, but I have never dared to
> do so. So my situation is different enough from yours that I still need to
> ask the following question more explicitly:
>

I also keep a separate /home. Each distro get the user name as per the
distro name and installed partition, and when I've checked that
everything works then I simply move my personal files from one
/home/user to another.

For instance, my current username is karmic1 because I am using Ubuntu
9.10 in sda1. When I installed Ubuntu 10.04 to sda2 I called the user
lucid2. That was a bad distro, so I'm still using the old karmic1 user
and booting into Ubuntu 9.10.


> Dotan suggests carrying over only ~/.kde[4]/share/apps/<appName>. Since
> e.g. kmail is represented in both .kde and .kde4, presumably I should
> carry over both appName directories. But apps also have subdirectories
> ~/.kde[4]/share/config/<appName>, so there are altogether four appName
> subdirectories needed for each  kde app. I'd bother copying at all only
> for kmail and kaddressbook, because that is where imprtant data are.
>

You must check if your kmail install is using the file from .kde or
.kde4. It is only using one.


> But when v11.2 and kde4 install kmail and kaddressbook, will they actually
> make use of these directories that came from kde3?
>

In the specific case of Kmail, yes.


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