| On Tuesday 19 May 2009 18:36:49 Rick Miles wrote: > On Tuesday 19 May 2009 04:54:15 pm Kevin Krammer wrote: > > On Tuesday, 2009-05-19, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Tuesday 19 May 2009 02:48:23 Rick Miles wrote: > > > > Can anyone provide instructions for migrating my kmail stuff from > > > > kde3 to kde4? > > > > > > > > Besides the obvious ~/Mail directory what needs to be moved from > > > > ~/.kde? ... or indeed what can be moved safely? > > > > You only need to copy ~/Mail if you don't want to use that location any > > longer. > > > > > You can copy any or all of ~/.kde/share/apps and :/kde/share/config. > > I'm using the same /home/rick directory for both my stable (12.2) and beta > (current) slackware installs this was never before with kde.3 even though > versions were different. I wasn't an "aware" linux user when things went > from kde2 to 3 so I can't say what problems there might have been but I > know that not all kde3 application configs worked well in in the kde-4.2.2 > environment, konsole, kate and konqueror to name three I had problems with > last time around > > > You can even copy or rename .kde/ > > I have a .kde3 and a .kde4 and a script that symlinks a .kde to one or the > other depending on which version of kde is installed on the system. Tested > fine for 5 or 6 logins each way and was working well thereafter, I'm sure > that's not the problem > > > It is quite weird though that you would have to copy anything at all. > > While some distributions decided to use a different base directory for > > KDE4, they usually also provide a migration tool which does the copying. > > This is Slackware which ships everything vanilla just as upstream released > it albeit after qt4 and kde4 came out of testing there are > kde-compatability packages in extra if one wants to install them to run > legacy kde3 aps on 4 > > > > > If you missed my comments in a previous thread I have lost my > > > > filters, > > > > > > I would guess that they are in one of the config files. > > > > Correct, kmailrc > > I'll have another go at this again tonight (maybe) There may have also been > a non-kde issue involved as somehow I had started an arecord script in the > background and had a couple whooping great .wav's in my home directory > taking that partition just about up to 100%. I did not know this untill I > hit the icon to check mail and got a 'can't open, disk ful'l message. I > killed the proccess deleted the .wav's and when I next tried kmail it said > there was no user and asked if I wanted to configure one. I killed that > popup to prevent any possible overwrites but when kmail came up everything > had changed although my user and isp details remained intact. > > Dunno > > Oh, Hi Anne, thanks for the input as well. I figured I'd try to configure the kmail in 4.2.3 as is/was I was not able to get the traditional list view by date on a single line but was able to get a double line (subject and sender) by date in most folders although some remained partially threaded and were missing posts which were visible in kde-3.5.10. -- Cheers, http://turtlespond.net http://rickmiles.com.au |
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