migrating kmail stuff to kde4

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 19 May 2009 23:07:10 Rick Miles wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 May 2009 18:36:49 Rick Miles wrote:
> > On Tuesday 19 May 2009 04:54:15 pm Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, 2009-05-19, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 19 May 2009 02:48:23 Rick Miles wrote:
> > > > > Can anyone provide instructions for migrating my kmail stuff from
> > > > > kde3 to kde4?
> > > > >
> > > > > Besides the obvious ~/Mail directory what needs to be moved from
> > > > > ~/.kde? ... or indeed what can be moved safely?
> > >
> > > You only need to copy ~/Mail if you don't want to use that location any
> > > longer.
> > >
> > > > You can copy any or all of ~/.kde/share/apps and :/kde/share/config.
> >
> > I'm using the same /home/rick directory for both my stable (12.2) and
> > beta (current) slackware installs this was never before with kde.3 even
> > though versions were different. I wasn't an "aware" linux user when
> > things went from kde2 to 3 so I can't say what problems there might have
> > been but I know that not all kde3 application configs worked well in in
> > the kde-4.2.2 environment, konsole, kate and konqueror to name three I
> > had problems with last time around
> >
> > > You can even copy or rename .kde/
> >
> > I have a .kde3 and a .kde4 and a script that symlinks a .kde to one or
> > the other depending on which version of kde is installed on the system.
> > Tested fine  for 5 or 6 logins each way and was working well thereafter,
> > I'm sure that's not the problem
> >
> > > It is quite weird though that you would have to copy anything at all.
> > > While some distributions decided to use a different base directory for
> > > KDE4, they usually also provide a migration tool which does the
> > > copying.
> >
> > This is Slackware which ships everything vanilla just as upstream
> > released it albeit after qt4 and kde4 came out of testing there are
> > kde-compatability packages in extra if one wants to install them to run
> > legacy kde3 aps on 4
> >
> > > > > If you missed my comments in a previous thread I have lost my
> > > > > filters,
> > > >
> > > > I would guess that they are in one of the config files.
> > >
> > > Correct, kmailrc
> >
> > I'll have another go at this again tonight (maybe) There may have also
> > been a non-kde issue involved as somehow I had started an arecord script
> > in the background and had a couple whooping great .wav's in my home
> > directory taking that partition just about up to 100%. I did not know
> > this untill I hit the icon to check mail and got a 'can't open, disk
> > ful'l message. I killed the proccess deleted the .wav's and when I next
> > tried kmail it said there was no user and asked if I wanted to configure
> > one. I killed that popup to prevent any possible overwrites but when
> > kmail came up everything had changed although my user and isp details
> > remained intact.
> >
> > Dunno
> >
> > Oh, Hi Anne, thanks for the input as well.
>
> I figured I'd try to configure the kmail in 4.2.3 as is/was I was not able
> to get the traditional list view by date on a single line but was able to
> get a double line (subject and sender) by date in most folders although
> some remained partially threaded and were missing posts which were visible
> in kde-3.5.10.
>
> I have copied over the kde-3.5.10 configs again and this has held together
> for several transits between the two versions.

In aggregation, I have Activity by Date, threaded, then using the configure 
button, on Groups, threading and sorting, 

grouping		none
threading		perfect by references and by subject

I don't recall having to change anything else.  HTH

Anne
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