Some notes on my switch to KDE 4.1

[Matthias]

Hi!

I'm not sure whether this is the right way (TM) to give you this information 
or whether it should be filled in bug reports...

Anyway. First, let me thank you for the integration work, after switching from 
apt-get to aptitude the upgrade was a breeze. There were no "show stoppers" 
only a few glitches which I'm reporting:

When I added a start icon for the showimg application to my panel I didn't get 
the appropriate icon. I fixed this by copying the 
/usr/share/applications/kde/gwenview.desktop file to showimg.desktop and 
modifyed it with a text editor. The other applications showed their correct 
icon.
Should I file a bug report?


When updating kmail I used

aptitude -t experimental install kontact

and expected that kmail would automagically be updated to. But it wasn't. 
Shouldn't there be a dependency taking care of this?


After aptitude upgraded kmail (from the KDE 3.5.9 Version to KDE 4.1 version) 
the start icon I added to the panel didn't start kmail anymore. I manually set 
the desktop file path in .kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc to

Url=file:///usr/share/applications/kde4/KMail.desktop

restarted the desktop and kmail launches again. So I expect that with other 
KDE programs making their transition from KDE 3 to KDE 4 they will face the 
same problem.



kmail started and told me that this was the first start and I should do some 
configuration. I aborted kmail, copied my .kde/share/apps/kmail directory to 
.kde4/share/apps as well as the files .kde/share/config/kmailrc and 
.kde/share/config/kmail.eventsrc
After starting kmail again everything was in place except my identity as well 
as my accounts sending settings. I had to configure them via the settings 
menu. Is there any transition tool planed for such situations?


That's it for the start, I guess I've forgotten other things ..., but maybe 
this is helpful though.

regards
matthias