On Friday 26 March 2010 12:39:44 C wrote:
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:34, Will Stephenson
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 -- Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org