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Re: What needs to improve in KDE 4?



On Tuesday 11 May 2010, Marc Haber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 08:58:17AM +0200, cobaco wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 May 2010, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> > > On Monday 10 May 2010 18.12:46 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > > > I started 4.4 on a new ~/.kde
> > > > folder, can you try in a new user profile and report back?
> > > 
> > > I hate it when this shows up.  Yes, it's probably easier to debug,
> > > but often bugs *do* show up that don't happen anymore when I remove
> > > my ~/.kde directory, but this doesn't really help the user who has
> > > the bug. Unfortunately, the end result is very often that removing
> > > ~/.kde and starting from scratch becomes the only solution that is
> > > "officially" recommended.
> > 
> > read remove as 'move temporarily out of the way', this is just the
> > first step in localizing the problem: if it doesn't get rid of the
> > problem then we've established conclusively that the bug is not
> > triggered by something in your personal settings.
> 
> Is it guaranteed that KDE doesn't store anything outside of ~/.kde 

not entirely some of the cross-desktop standarized stuff is stored in 
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME (which defaults to $HOME/.config) as specified in the 
freedesktop basedir spec

> so that a user doesn't risk things getting desynched if one exchanges one
> ~/.kde with a different one?

shouldn't be a problem AFAIK
-- 
Cheers, Cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)

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