Uploads to lenny and the $KDEHOME dilemma

[Ana Guerrero]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:13:16PM +0100, Armin Berres wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Feb 09 22:53, Armin Berres wrote:
> > The current situation is, that KDE 3 applications use ~/.kde and KDE 4 
> > applications use ~/.kde4. The problem with this approach is, that no 
> > data/settings are automatically converted to be used by KDE 4.
> > 
> > The question is now: should we
> > a) continue to use ~/.kde4 for KDE 4 applications
> > b) use ~/.kde for KDE 4 applications.
> 
> When looking at the thread it seems as if we will go with b).
> The question is now: Is anyone working on any kind of conversion tool?
> Of yes, wht is the timeframe until it will be usable?
>

Yeah, it looks like b) is prefered. So let's plan with this option.

In case nobody is interested in (or have time for) doing a settings migrating 
tool for the stuff that is not migrated by the apps [1], we always can setup a 
page (and also maybe a README in the packages?) with some hints for migrating 
the stuff and have some pointer when people yells: WHERE IS MY EMAIL?

We have several cases:
- User of KDE 3 going to KDE 4 when it enters in unstable. (base case)
- Current user of KDE 4.2 who have already migrated settings. (nothing to do
  in our side, they have already migrated themselves)
- And the hard one: user of KDE 3 using some KDE 4 stuff. They have .kde and
  .kde4 with data in both.

Ana

[1] For what I have understood in this thread, everything should be migrated,
and when it is not possible, being ignored. And when it is not correclty 
migrated it is a bug to report to upstream.