On Monday 09 February 2009 04:32:40 Manoel Couder wrote: > Dear fedora-kde list, > > I plan to switch from fedora 8 to fedora 10 in the next few days and I need > your advise on a few strategic matters related to kde. Until now, when I > upgraded, I usually created a brand new installation, including my user > name. I would carefully attribute the same uid and guid as in my previous > installation. I would then put my data back in the newly created /home/me > and than slowly put back in the /home/me/.kde/ directory the few config > files that I need/want (bookmarks, kopete config, kabc data, kwallet...). I > really liked the idea to start with a configuration as clean as possible, > using the default config. But this time, kde is very different. > > My question is what do you advise me to do ? Should I just keep my old .kde > directory ? Can I copy just the files I really need and hope the kde4 treat > them the same way? > > Thanks, > If you're going to upgrade from DVD then I suggest you make backup copies of your relevant configuration files and start clean. Otherwise you will probably have a lot of garbage left over from the previous installation. Regarding KDE: Before loggiing in to KDE you can then restore your entire .kde directory. If things get screwy you can always log out. Delete the .kde directory and continue as you always have. Don't forget, you already have a backup of your original .kde. Eli -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20090209/a2a55877/attachment.html
