Two Problems Upgrading From F23 To F24

[Garry Williams]

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.

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[*] 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.

-- 
Garry T. Williams

[Reindl Harald]

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

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

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

[Sudhir Khanger]

>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.

[Garry Williams]

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.

-- 
Garry T. Williams