Hi,<br><br>I think we should use whatever the upstream choose as default, so users will not get confused by the (possible) difference between upstream documentation and the Debian settings.<br><br>A debconf preconfigure dialog with an explanation of the change and that more information can be found in the Debian.Readme would be a good thing IMHO.<br>
<br>Bye!<br> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Armin Berres <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:armin@space-based.de">armin@space-based.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I meant Squeeze and not Lenny for sure.<br>
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On Tuesday 03 February 2009 22:53:42 Armin Berres wrote:<br>
> Hi all!<br>
><br>
> As you all know Lenny is near, which also means that our 4.2 packages will<br>
> enter Unstable in the very near future. Until today, we still have not<br>
> decided how to handle KDEHOME.<br>
> The current situation is, that KDE 3 applications use ~/.kde and KDE 4<br>
> applications use ~/.kde4. The problem with this approach is, that no<br>
> data/settings are automatically converted to be used by KDE 4.<br>
><br>
> The question is now: should we<br>
> a) continue to use ~/.kde4 for KDE 4 applications<br>
> b) use ~/.kde for KDE 4 applications.<br>
><br>
> The problem with a) is, that as mentioned no data is is moved to KDE 4. The<br>
> problem with b) is, that we don't know for sure, if all upgrade scripts<br>
> work and users don't loose critical data. Apart from that users already<br>
> using KDE 4 won't find their settings copied.<br>
> (Add here more pros and cons for either option.)<br>
><br>
> To overcome this, we had the following idea in IRC: Provide a little Qt<br>
> application which starts at the first KDE 4 start and allows the users to<br>
> copy their KDEHOMEs around.<br>
> In case we would use ~/.kde for KDE 4 the script could offer to create a<br>
> backup in ~/.kde3 so lost data can be reverted if anything goes wrong.<br>
> If we continue to use ~/.kde4 the application could offer to copy ~/.kde to<br>
> ~/.kde4.<br>
> Non-KDE users are a bit lost here, we could document what to copy where.<br>
><br>
> So, which options do you see? What would you prefer?<br>
> Don't forget that we have to decide/code all this before we upload kde4libs<br>
> to unstable.<br>
><br>
> Greetings,<br>
> Armin<br>
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