[kdepim-users] settings migration

[Caleb Cushing]

On Tuesday 01 April 2008 05:10:26 am you wrote:
> You know well enough that user-induced changes have to be taken into
> account.   The safe way is to do as Ingo said, and copy the whole of
> ~/.kde.  That doesn't mean that you should necessarily use it wholesale.  I
> always copy it to elsewhere then copy over the bits that I find necessary.

hows that different from just scp-ing the bit's you need from one comp to 
another. my settings migration was from my laptop to my desktop (I'm not 
removing them from my laptop).

> > to make a long story short I'm trying to fix this just for me.
> > http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75
>
> That's not a bug, it's wish.  You are of course perfectly at liberty to do
> that.  Just bear in mind that it is then non-standard, and support may not
> be forthcoming.

well you report them in the same way. did I say bug? you're cite of me just 
says I said I'm fixing it for me which is by symlinking files to other files. 
I would call bug on a maintainer if symlinks don't work because they should.

> > finally, I was done with this thread like a day ago. I got the files I
> > needed copied over. I apologize for the rant as it is not truly
> > conductive but I feel the need to backup my position on this matter.
>
> Fair enough.  But when developers take the time to help you, you need to be
> a little more circumspect in your wording.

I've been getting iritable about lectures on my admin practices (especially 
when people aren't answering the question asked), and people telling me I'm 
wrong for thinking the way I do. I don't mind the help but unless you can 
back it up... (which saying (s)he knows the system inside and out suggests he 
and you know better than me which files not to migrate. I don't want to take 
that kind of time.) 

perhaps there should be a settings migration/duplication wizard. I'm 90% sure 
it wouldn't copy all of .kde. 

now if you told me all of a sub directory of .kde was safe to copy because it 
was just config files and only config files that were needed (doesn't include 
a bunch of .bak's symlinks and otherwise redundant data) I would be inclined 
to listen.
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