Amarok 2 config files

Jeff Mitchell kde-dev at emailgoeshere.com
Fri Apr 4 03:46:14 CEST 2008


Mark Kretschmann wrote:
> 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.
> 

Me too, although I strongly suggest that we should complain to Ubuntu 
guys...but who knows, perhaps Riddell has his reasons...

--Jeff


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