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| Summary: | No migration path from KDE 3.4 to KDE 4.x | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3 | Reporter: | Axel Braun <axel.braun> |
| Component: | KDE4 Applications | Assignee: | E-mail List <kde-maintainers> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | E-mail List <qa-bugs> |
| Severity: | Normal | ||
| Priority: | P2 - High | CC: | ctrippe, cyberbeat, forgotten_kHYb7eJGnH, gecobb, joerg.steffens, lars.behrens, lavrinenko_alex, suse-beta, wstephenson |
| Version: | Final | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | Other | ||
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| Found By: | --- | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
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Description
Axel Braun
2008-07-29 15:27:44 UTC
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 396134 *** Let's try the other way around. *** Bug 396134 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 424089 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** There is a migration tool in openSUSE11.1, please file specific bugreports if there are any problems with it. (In reply to comment #5 from Lubos Lunak) > There is a migration tool in openSUSE11.1, please file specific bugreports if > there are any problems with it. I have installed 11.1rc1, but cant find anything. Can you point me to this program? According to https://features.opensuse.org/306658 problems should be filed in this bug. According to the a.m. link, a migration tool should exist, but its functionality is either defective or just missing. Following case on 11.2 milestone 7: Homedirectory created new. Hidden directories are copied from an existing user, esp. ~/.kde, but not ~/.kde4 Thereafter new user is created and the above home directory is assigned. Log on with the new user, start kmail: Instead of having the settings from kmail/KDE3 converted to kmail/KDE4, the assistant pops up to create new mail accounts. Nothing is converted. As more and more users will go from KDE3 to KDE4, which is the default desktop in 11.2, it is crucial to have a proper migration of all settings. For this I changed the importance to critical. Don't play with priorities unless you will work on it: http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/Definitions Yes, a migration tool is extremely important! I can't go hunting config files in all of my user's ~ dirs (kmail, knode filters, korganizer dates, ..). In the current state 11.2 won't be usable for us. For Debian there's "kaboom", maybe could take profit of that. There seems to be discussion in open FATE about there being a migration tool already in place. Is that right or is this bug still valid for 11.3? Thanks? Steve I also read the opendate entry, and tried. but there still seems not useful migration tool for 11.3. and kde blames opensuse for using .kde4 instead of .kde as directory name. Still have to manually create new kmail4 accounts, especially no way to take over smtp-accounts via config-files. (In reply to comment #10) > There seems to be discussion in open FATE about there being a migration tool > already in place. Is that right or is this bug still valid for 11.3? Well, the discussion in openFATE was closed as it was claimed to have a migration tool in place. If that is not working correctly, a bug should be filed in Bugzilla - THIS IS actually the bug. But nothing is happening on it. So if H.Hansen says it is not working, then I assume the bug is still valid for 11.3 Updated to 11.3 *** Bug 527260 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Well, there is a very basic migration tool:
cp -a ~/.kde ~/.kde4
This worked for me for settings, Akregator archives, bookmarks etc. - at least I didn't miss anything.
Be warned that
- it's a while since I did that (IIRC on a 11.1 system)
- you should do that only if you do not have a ~/.kde4 yet
Plain copy of the ~/.kde path is indeed a way, but as some assignments and settings have changed, you may not find everything later on. I have summarized the main things to migrate in a little copy script, which you can find here: http://kdemigrator.sourceforge.net It is definitely not complete or perfect, but should save you some manual work. I guess this bug is now WONTFIX as probably nobody cares for KDE3-> KDE4 migration any longer. |