Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1523 mails)

[Will Stephenson <wstephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 26 March 2010 12:39:44 C wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:34, Will Stephenson <wstephenson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Question... did you clear off the 4.3.5 settings and start "fresh"
> > > with a default 4.4.1 config? or did you try to "reuse" the old 4.3.5
> > > settings.  That's about the only thing I can think of that I've done
> > > on all systems that are running 4.4.1 (laptops and desktops).
> >
> > That really shouldn't be necessary in production systems; backward
> > compatibility is designed into the KDE config system.  If it is broken
> > for an app, that's just a bug.
>
> No argument at all... it's unfortunately been a known "fix" for a
> while though, and I do that on all KDE4 installs I do right now...
> install 4.3.1, upgrade to 4.4.1 and toast the config file.  If I do
> that, KDE4.4.1 works beautifully on all systems I have it running on.
>
> Is it broken... yup... is it a bug... yup... and it is annoying...

It's a workaround for you, but (standard plaintive developer spiel follows) 
using a workaround without reporting the bugs breaks the feedback cycle, and 
eventually nobody knows that from KDE 2 onwards you could keep the same config 
around and your settings would be migrated by the apps.  Yes, this has been 
also weakened by a minority developers of some apps who have not given enough 
attention to making backward config compatibility work, but generally the 
system works, so don't let it fall apart.

Will

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Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters Team
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