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Migration from KDE 3
by S. on Friday 22/Feb/2008, @01:07

Hi guys,

Will there be a way to import emails, configurations, contacts, etc., from KDE 3? Right now I can't even find how to have Kopete 4 load my accounts and contacts from Kopete 3... :/

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Re: Migration from KDE 3
by Kevin Kofler on Friday 22/Feb/2008, @01:44

If you use a distribution like Fedora which keeps .kde as the configuration directory for KDE 4, migration should just work. If it doesn't, please file bugs. If your distribution uses the .kde4 hack, complain to your distribution... But manually copying .kde to .kde4 should work around that mess.

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Re: Migration from KDE 3
by whatever noticed on Friday 22/Feb/2008, @06:48

or create a symlink between ~/.kde and ~/.kde4 to ensure kde4 uses the previous configuration directories of kde..

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Re: Migration from KDE 3
by crawman on Friday 22/Feb/2008, @08:52

It's okay to make a symlink if you are definitely migrating to KDE 4 and staying there. But if you are just trying out KDE 4 software while keeping KDE 3 as your main system, keep ~/.kde and ~/.kde4 separate. Otherwise you'll find that the KDE 4 version of an application will probably mess up the configuration for the KDE 3 version. You can move smoothly from KDE 3 to 4, but not back again using the same configuration directory.

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Re: Migration from KDE 3
by Lee on Saturday 23/Feb/2008, @01:28

"It's okay to make a symlink if you are definitely migrating to KDE 4 and staying there."

IF definitely migrating, huh? But I don't see how it will help, if those people start symlinking from ~/.kde4 to /win/WINNT ;)

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Re: Migration from KDE 3
by S. on Friday 22/Feb/2008, @14:56

Hi Kevin! Thank you for your answer.

As others have explained below, sharing the whole KDE 3 configuration directory with KDE 4 works if you don't intend to switch back, but may not be such a good idea otherwise. Since KDE 4 is really not there yet as far as my personal workflow is concerned, I am simply not switching for good yet, although I'd really like to give more KDE 4 apps a go, in order to get used to the changes, but also so I can file bug reports (and hopefully provide patches where I'm able).

Thank you for the answer anyway. I'll manage something.

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Re: Migration from KDE 3
by Kevin Kofler on Friday 22/Feb/2008, @20:50

Right. Copying .kde (or at least the config files you care about) to .kde4 should be safe though.

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Re: Migration from KDE 3
by S. on Monday 25/Feb/2008, @01:20

Hi Kevin,

Well, that's my problem -- while I know which files I 'care about' (whichever contain my Kopete accounts and contact lists), I don't know which ones those are! Apparently Kopete delegates account info storage to some external module, so copying over kopeterc and share/apps/kopete/ didn't suffice.

I'll probably copy the whole .kde/ and see how that goes. *g*

Thanks for the advice!

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