I upgraded to Fedora 24 (from Fedora 23) and had two problems:
The upgrade apparently deleted kdm and did not enable sddm as my login manager, so no graphical login. A "sudo systemctl --force enable sddm.service" corrected the problem. Oh well, I guess I should not have continued with kdm so long. :-)
Kmail ignored my settings[*] and created settings as if I never had any. It _did_ know where my mail was. I had to copy kmail2rc from ~/.kde/share/config to ~/.config .
All is well now.
___________________ [*] This is quite irritating since the KDE developers have been doing this sort of thing with the entire suite over the last several years. They have shown a complete disdain for users' settings for all of the KDE desktop applications and environment. It is amazing to me that it still goes on.
Am 25.06.2016 um 02:33 schrieb Garry Williams:
Kmail ignored my settings[*] and created settings as if I never had any. It _did_ know where my mail was. I had to copy kmail2rc from ~/.kde/share/config to ~/.config
that's why it is a stupid idea to migrate setting locations all the time
in your case it broke soemthing, in other cases you have over years a ton of config files and a "locate appname" don't tell you which one is used and which one are old orphans
On Fri, 2016-06-24 at 20:33 -0400, Garry Williams wrote:
[*] This is quite irritating since the KDE developers have been doing this sort of thing with the entire suite over the last several years. They have shown a complete disdain for users' settings for all of the KDE desktop applications and environment. It is amazing to me that it still goes on.
+1
I realise that maintaining compatibility over many versions is unrealistic, but new versions should be able to migrate settings from at least the immediately preceding version.
poc
>Kmail ignored my settings[*] and created settings as if I never had
>any. It _did_ know where my mail was. I had to copy kmail2rc from
>~/.kde/share/config to ~/.config .
>
>All is well now.
Did you have to redownload all your emails too?
Thanks to Apper/Software updater widget I will have to mark all packages user installed. Remove rpmfusion and reinstall them as the packages are not signed. And on top of that KDE migration problems. I wondering if upgrading is even worth the hassle.
Regards,
Sudhir Khanger,
sudhirkhanger.com.
On Saturday, June 25, 2016 7:42:07 PM EDT Sudhir Khanger wrote in HTML:
>Kmail ignored my settings[*] and created settings as if I never had >any. It _did_ know where my mail was. I had to copy kmail2rc from >~/.kde/share/config to ~/.config . > >All is well now.
Did you have to redownload all your emails too?
No. I noted that Kmail knew where my E-mail was. It just didn't know any of my settings.
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