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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