[kde] [Bug 466513] New: corrupted settings while uninstalled from under it, suggest backup or detection

[Aaron Peterson]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466513

            Bug ID: 466513
           Summary: corrupted settings while uninstalled from under it,
                    suggest backup or detection
    Classification: I don't know
           Product: kde
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: FreeBSD Ports
                OS: Other
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: alpeterson at gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1.  run desktop-installer from a sudo inside konsole (ill advised)
2.  I think there was a dependency failure about a transcode library, and that
freaked the script out, and after attempting to install turbo jpeg for ports
instead of pkg  ( I realize now that I did not install it from ports, we
probably need to add that to the platform options, or someone can move it to
other)
3. it started to uninstall stuff, I thought it was just deleting downloaded
files, but nope, konsole crashed, and all the other applications crashed too, 
just left with a plasma shell that could log out.
4. Reinstall KDE5  (pkg install kde5)
5 -- observe
6, move the .dbus .kde and .config folders to another location.
7. login with KDE X11 session, and it is back to a default install.

OBSERVED RESULT
After reinstalling, all the desktop icons were corrupted, and the list of
applications in the launcher were corrupted.

EXPECTED RESULT
A.  Errors instead of vanishing apps... but we can't control everything when
root yanks stuff out from under us...
B.  An uncorrupted version of settings that just work when the applications are
reinstalled.
C. some sort of detection and re-running of  the initial program that scans and
catalogs applications and configures toolbars and panels.     -- A dialog that
says:  Corrupt settings detected, restore to system default?  and copies the
corrupted settings to a spot that could be restored if uncorrupted.
D. Human readable settings... I know from in the past, I tried to set up a lab
to have KDE configured like a kiosk, and KDE likes to save binary blobs and
stuff in the configuration files.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
latest from freeBSD13.1 as of  Sunday 2/26/2023
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5
Qt Version: 5

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This is actually fairly important for keeping the system reliable.  Detecting
faults and being able to recover shouldn't be too hard, hopefully not used
often, but people like to bork their systems.

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