Installing kde4

Ted & Elly Hansen
Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:48:44 -0000

On November 11, 2008 10:34:03 am you wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Nov 08 10:29, Ted & Elly Hansen wrote:
> > I have just installed kde4.1.2 following the procedure in
> > http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html
> >
> > At some point in the installation, all my ~.kde/share/apps/  files got
> > deleted and were not replaced.
>
> Nope, not at all. (At least I don''t know at all, how this could
happen).
> What happens is that KDE 4 uses ~/.kde4 instead if ~/.kde. This means
> you have to copy ~/.kde to ~/.kde4 to keep your settings. Could this be
> the ''problem''?
> We really don''t have any code in place which could delete ~/.kde.
>
> Greetings,
> Armin

Well, they are gone.

After the kde4 install (aptitude install kde4-minimal then aptitude install
kde4), all that is left in ~.kde/share/ is mimelink, services and
servicetypes.

~.kde4/share has an apps folder but it is all new.

Aptitude did not report any problems during the install but at the next
startup there was a warning about no "config" folder in ~.kde/share.

Ted