[Bug 169827] Import settings from KDE 3.x versions of KMail

[Kevin Krammer]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169827





--- Comment #12 from Kevin Krammer <kevin krammer gmx at>  2009-04-24 21:26:35 ---
(In reply to comment #11)

> Just now I tried manually copying the ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail,
> ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc to the relevant places under ~/.kde4, and then
> started up KDE4 KMail.  It appears that everything (filters, sending/receiving
> accounts, mail folders, etc.) apart from identities was successfully imported. 

If you copy the emailidentities file directly, it might still work.
If there was something to import KMail would have done that during its startup.

> I'm still not sure why this feature was marked as RESOLVED/DOWNSTREAM.  Why
> should it be the responsibility of vendors to provide the import tool?

They don't have to if the allow Upstream(KDE) to use its own upgrade mechanism.
However, if a distributor changes code of one KDE version to behave different
than the other KDE version, they'll have to provide for a migration path
compensating this additional difference.

> Only
> the KMail developers know the difference in kmailrc file formats between KDE3
> and KDE4.  There's no need for each vendor to code its own importer which does
> the exact same thing.

Right. That's why there are respective scripts for KDE's config upgrade
mechanism.
Vendors only need to code their own importer/migrator if they change KDE in a
ways that makes it impossible for KDE's migrator to work.

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