[Bug 291222] New: compressed and encoded data blobs should not be in config files. many stored in State field in rc files

[Aaron Peterson]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=291222

           Summary: compressed and encoded data blobs should not be in
                    config files. many stored in State field in rc files
           Product: kde
           Version: CVS
          Platform: Unlisted Binaries
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: alpeterson at gmail.com


Version:           CVS (using Devel) 
OS:                Linux

rekonq, quassel  and perhaps a lot more have encoded, (I guess it is not
strictly binary encoded) blobs make it hard for me to understand what they are.


I would like to be able to copy my kde configuration into /etc/skel, and have
that be the system default for new users.
This is too hard now, because there are too many things to manually edit.
Blobs are not trivially edited.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Try to copy KDE's config files to /etc/skel


Actual Results:  
realize that the exact way you last left a window is saved, oh no, have to go
thru and replace the blob with one from another session that has desired
layout.

Expected Results:  
For performance, a blob may be nice to have kept in some sort of cache... The
configuration file should be all human readable.

bug 290675 depends on this.

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