Amarok 2 config files

Mark Kretschmann kretschmann at kde.org
Fri Apr 4 00:49:04 CEST 2008


On 4/4/08, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi devs,
>  It recently came to my attention that Ubuntu sets the Amarok 2 data
>  dir to conflict with Amarok 1.4. ie: ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok, and
>  similarly for the amarokrc file.
>
>  I was always sure that kde4 used ~/.kde4, but I suppose we can't rely
>  on these people for such integrity.
>
>  I predict that we'll have countless user problems if we allow this to
>  happen, between conflicting rc files and overwritten Amarok 1.4
>  collection.db files.
>
>  So my proposition is to force all amarok 2 data to be placed under the
>  ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok2 folders. This means that if for any reason
>  the user decides to switch back to kde3/amarok1.4, there won't be any
>  loss of data or annoyances.
>
>  Thoughts?

Makes sense! I'm all for it.

-- 
Mark


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