Migrating kde data from kde3 to kde4

[Oleg Goldshmidt]

On 6/13/10, Stan Goodman <stan.goodman at hashkedim.com> wrote:

> If it were not for the great difference between the two kde versions, I
> would simply carry over the .kde directory, and be assured that I had
> captured all the data. But the v11.1 system contains both .kde and .kde4
> directories, and I am not at all sure of how they interrelate.

FWIW: at some point I surely went through the KDE3->KDE4 move (on
Fedora) and I do not recall it ever affecting me. I keep /home on a
separate partition, so when I upgrade the system it remains intact.
Since I don't recall doing anything specific I suspect that either no
directory names needed to be changed or the update took care of
everything. I don't see any ~/.kde{3,4} directories on any of my
machines (on 4.4.{2,3} now), so everything was transparent (and I
don't recall anything breaking in KDE).

Of course, maybe it is just thanks to some RedHat/Fedora sorcery, but
chances are KDE took care of it.

Why not backup your new ~/.kde{,4}, move the old ~/.kde over, start
KDE and see what happens?

-- 
Oleg Goldshmidt | pub at goldshmidt.org