On Friday 02 December 2011 16:36:39 John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 18:26 +0200, Ilya Dogolazky wrote: > > Hi ! > > > > I've installed trinity today for the first time. > > Until yesterday I used an old installation of KDE 3.5 (debian, probably > > lenny; but today it's squeeze with some wheezy elements). I have couple > > of questions about the KDE -> Trinity transition and the first one is: > > Is there an way to import as many settings as possible from my old KDE > > settings directory? > > <snip> > Yes. Aside from any centralized settings in KIOSK mode (which will be > honored by Trinity), KDE3 stored personal settings in ~/.kde. Trinity > stores them in ~/.trinity. One can simply copy the contents of ~/.kde > into ~/.trinity. I suppose one could also use a symbolic link. Hpoe > that helps - John The rendered my mail unusable. So I had resort to my backup, which died :-(, so I retreated back to KDE 3.5.10 while I still had my second backup. I have very little spare time at the moment, so am just praying taht my temporary computer will let me struggle on for a couple of months until I've got more time to rebuild my poor dead desktop machine, and reinstall Trinity. So warnings to keep good backups are essential! Lisi