On Thursday 03 of June 2010 16:00:26 Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: > On 3 June 2010 15:47, Marek Otahal <markotahal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> It could be worse. For me it broke everything visible (at least plasma > >> configuration was gone) and I had to clean my .kde4 and configure > >> everything again. > > > > Well, I'd like to thank everybody for support, I finally decided to spent > > 4hours and revert back to a (luckily made) backup. Later I upgraded again > > and everything works well now. So I believe the cause was a broken > > upgrade process on my side (kdelibs,..) > > > > Talking about a clean .kde4, this is a common but radical solution, is > > there and easy way to perserve IM history, mails, kwallet passwords and > > whatnot.. or is this all hidden (and lost) somewhere in this dir and has > > to be copied manually? > > Thanks again, Marek > > > > -- > > > > Marek Otahal :o) > > Actually you don't have to start from scratch. Usually when you need > to start with a clean .kde4 it's because plasma (or some other basic > component of desktop) have broken configuration. Fortunately > configuration of other applications (especially if they were not > running in time of breakage) shouldn't be touched. > > What I did after breakage of my kde settings is that I moved .kde4 to > .kde4.old and did a basic configuration (in my case configuring plasma > theme and adding widgets) again. Then I copied application (kdevelop, > amarok, kopete…) settings* from .kde4.old to the new .kde4. > > Lukas > > > > * The application settings can be found in .kde4/share/apps and in > .kde4/share/config. Thanks a lot! I'll try that next time I need it. It's at least better that setting everything from scratch. Ahoj, M. -- Marek Otahal :o)
