[opensuse] Switching from kde3 > kde4?
When I installed openSuSE v11.1 I elected to keep kde3, which may not have been the best course. Is it possible for me to rectify that now, without having to reinstall the system from scratch? Would the data files of kde apps be preserved in the transition? Or must I make special provision for this? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Samstag, 23. Mai 2009 13:47:57 schrieb Stan Goodman:
When I installed openSuSE v11.1 I elected to keep kde3, which may not have been the best course. Is it possible for me to rectify that now, without having to reinstall the system from scratch? Would the data files of kde apps be preserved in the transition? Or must I make special provision for this?
You can have both, KDE3 and 4 in parallel. They store their settings and data in different folders, i.e. ~/.kde for KDE3 and ~/.kde4 for KDE4. After you installed KDE4 you just have to logout and pick "KDE4" from the session list in kdm. There might be some script that tries to copy your KDE3 settings to KDE4, but for e.g. email you will have to copy it manually. Easiest would be to try to copy .kde to .kde4 and see how it goes. Never tried that though. What I did was to start from scratch since KDE4 is different to KDE3 and setting it up shows you its new features. I copied the email data, i.e. not the settings to .kde4 which worked without issues. The most stable KDE 4 available for opensuse after the DVD version and the STABLE repo is KDE:42. http://en.opensuse.org/KDE4#KDE_4.2_Project In case you already have some KDE 4.1 packages installed you might come across some conflicts, since some packages were merged. In that case http://en.opensuse.org/Talk:KDE/KDE4 might help. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
At 15:12:00 on Saturday Saturday 23 May 2009, Sven Burmeister
Am Samstag, 23. Mai 2009 13:47:57 schrieb Stan Goodman:
When I installed openSuSE v11.1 I elected to keep kde3, which may not have been the best course. Is it possible for me to rectify that now, without having to reinstall the system from scratch? Would the data files of kde apps be preserved in the transition? Or must I make special provision for this?
You can have both, KDE3 and 4 in parallel. They store their settings and data in different folders, i.e. ~/.kde for KDE3 and ~/.kde4 for KDE4. After you installed KDE4 you just have to logout and pick "KDE4" from the session list in kdm.
There might be some script that tries to copy your KDE3 settings to KDE4, but for e.g. email you will have to copy it manually. Easiest would be to try to copy .kde to .kde4 and see how it goes. Never tried that though.
Sounds simple -- if I can boot to either desktop, I wouldn't need to bring over the kmail data, but could start fresh in kde4. That wouldn't work for kaddressbook, of course.
What I did was to start from scratch since KDE4 is different to KDE3 and setting it up shows you its new features. I copied the email data, i.e. not the settings to .kde4 which worked without issues.
The most stable KDE 4 available for opensuse after the DVD version and the STABLE repo is KDE:42. http://en.opensuse.org/KDE4#KDE_4.2_Project
In case you already have some KDE 4.1 packages installed you might come across some conflicts, since some packages were merged. In that case http://en.opensuse.org/Talk:KDE/KDE4 might help.
I am not using any KDE4 apps, although I see in YaST that some are installed. It would seem easier to uninstall them, and only then install KDE4 itself. I would think of installing v4.2, as the page named above admits that v4.1.3 has printing problems. Thank you... -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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