In article <alpine.BSF.2.02.1208020730140.96775@...>, Jonesy <trinity-users@...> wrote: >On Thu, 2 Aug 2012, John A. Sullivan III wrote: >>On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 21:55 -0600, Jonesy wrote: >>> I'm running a Trinty 3.5.13.1 system that I upgraded from >>> Trinity kde3 Trinity 3.5.11 to/through 3.5.12 -- on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. >>> >>> I have a need to mess around with kdeglobals and I discovered this: >>> >>> jonesy@nix4:~/.kde3/share/config$ ls -ol `locate kdeglobals` | grep jonesy >>> -rw------- 1 jonesy 7333 2012-05-23 17:29 /home/jonesy/.kde3/share/config/kdeglobals >>> -rw------- 1 jonesy 8744 2012-08-01 20:01 /home/jonesy/.trinity/share/config/kdeglobals >>> jonesy@nix4 >>> >>> May of this year is about when I did the Trinity upgrade. >>> Is the /home/jonesy/.kde3/ merely detrius leftover from upgrading from >>> Trinity kde3 3.5.11? I can find nothing in there with a file timestamp >>> past May of this year. > >Anyway, what I'll do is rename ~/.kde3/ to ~/.somethingelse/ and run for >awhile to look for breakage and/or un-updates (non-Trinity) packages. Yes .trinity is where you will want stuff and has been for a while. I've upgraded in sequence like you. TBH as long as you haven't yet run any KDE4 apps you can rsync .kde/ to .trinity/ and pretty much pick up your last KDE3 desktop as you left it. Save .trinity first if you like just in case. Nick -- "The Internet, a sort of ersatz counterfeit of real life" -- Janet Street-Porter, BBC2, 19th March 1996