plasma5 and kde4 settings: what to synchronize

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Tuesday 15 July 2014 13:40:24 David Edmundson wrote:
> Brainstorming: could distros we set $KDEHOME  to .config on new
> installs? I can't decide if that will magically fix everything or
> break things more horribly. I think the latter.

wouldn't help much as also .local/share gets used :-(

> 
> One possible fallback option would be to have a KCM button to open
> kde4 system settings. It's in kde-runtime so should be still shipped
> by any distro that has a KDE4 app; but it goes against the idea that
> everything integrates perfectly and from a UI perspective rather
> rubbish.
> 
> Besides that there's no single "magic bullet" solution to fixing
> these, each KCM is different and handling conflicts between 4 and 5 at
> once is different too.  There's not much else to suggest other than to
> continue slowly adding fallback support for things there are enough
> demand for :(
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