kde upgrades = risks, hassles, annoyances.

[Andrew Kar]

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 03:55 pm, Dexter Filmore wrote:
> Since I was eagerly awaiting kde-3.4 because of that ICQ5-Bug in kopete I
> tried an upgrade.
> Foreclosure: I'm back to 3.3.2 for now.

None of these are problems that would (or should ) happen on a normal upgrade. 
I hate to say it (no I dont) but it sounds like all your fault. Tens of 
thousands of people upgrade kde with each release with no trouble so what 
does that suggest?.  When kde upgrades it keeps all your settings just as 
they are so you would not have lost your launchers, fonts or anything else 
unless your system was badly misconfigured in the first place causing the 
upgrade to fail and I say this as someone who does the upgrades for 1000's of 
users at a major university and numerous business sites.
  At a guess it sounds like kde was just setting up a standard new install and 
had found no /.kde in existence otherwise it would have upgraded the contents 
of that folder but kept its setting.
   I dont know why your .kde to .kde-3.2.2 symlnk broke but I doubt that the 
kde install had anything to do with it. Next time perhaps you will do it 
properly and set "KDEHOME" to overide "kdehome" in your startkde script or 
just set kdehome=$HOME/.kde-3.2.2 in your startkde script. Incidentally that 
is what you do if you want multiple versions of kde because the startkde 
script changes with each version.

-- 
regards,
andrew
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