[Bug 142881] New: customised toolbars: STOP increasing the rc version number in patchlevel versions

[Leo Savernik]

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           Summary: customised toolbars: STOP increasing the rc version
                    number in patchlevel versions
           Product: kmail
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Compiled Sources
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs kde org
        ReportedBy: l.savernik aon at


Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.6)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources

This is at least the second time that KMail reset my custom toolbar configuration on a patchlevel upgrade (3.5.5 -> 3.5.6, 3.5.4 -> 3.5.5).

While it is a known fact that KDE eats toolbar customisations between minor (3.x -> 3.x+1) and major level upgrades (y -> y+1), a patchlevel upgrade is neither expected nor meant to inflict additional configuration effort upon the user.

Therefore I ask the KMail developers to *stop* increasing rc-version numbers in the toolbar configuration xml-files to keep users from having to reconfigure their toolbar settings on each patchlevel upgrade again. With *stop increasing* I mean over the whole lifetime of KDE 3.5.x.

Note that this bug report only applies to KDE 3.5.x, as for KDE 4 KXMLGUI is said to finally vanish/become well behaved.