On Friday 05 January 2007 09:18, Brian Kelsay wrote:
Hopefully this [inconsistent file locations] will all get straightened out as we move on to KDE 3.5.x ...
Running for several months now as an optional upgrade on Mandriva. Current kubuntu is also 3.5.x...
I'm not comfortable with the way KDE is storing certain information, but I've discussed that with the appropriate people and I really don't have a concrete alternative.
There is a collection of important, version- and even program- independent information that is an essential part of a user's identity: Their email store, their address book, and their log-in info for various services like mail accounts, IRC, and IM. Too often, all that has to be re-entered by hand if the user does a new install, changes distros, moves to a different workstation, etc.
Packages are getting better at dealing with multiple possible versions of config files, but it's still common to have to remove all the old KDE configuration files (all of ~/.kde/) because something is conflicting or causing problems. I'm sure this is true of Gnome as well.
I don't know what the answer is, but there oughta be a better way.