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Re: [trinity-users] Migrating from openSUSE KDE3 to TDE

From: François ANDRIOT <francois.andriot@...>
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:31:49 +0100
Le 09/12/2012 05:39, Felix Miata a écrit :
> On 2012-12-08 22:11 (GMT-0600) Leslie Turriff composed:
>
>>     I'm currently running KDE3 in openSUSE 12.2, but I'm considering 
>> converting
>> to TDE.  The instructions on your download page don't say anything about
>> migration considerations.  Will the configuration information in my .kde
>> directory be used by TDE after the conversion, and if not, is there a
>> procedure for importing that data into TDE?
>
> First time I did according to (not official):
>
> Before you login into TDE, switch to tty[1-6] and login as user. Then, 
> 'cp -a .kde .trinity', go back to login window, log into TDE, and look 
> around. If you don't like it, logout, go back to ttyX, and 'rm -r 
> .trinity' to start fresh. If you do the fresh start you may want to 
> copy or import only certain portions of .kde, such as kmail data.

OK  I will write instructions on the Trinity's wiki about switching from 
KDE3 to Trinity.

The important thing is that you can have both of them working at the 
same time. If you want to use one, you must uninstall the other.

In short:
- install Trinity, following the instructions on the wiki
- From a text console, remove at least "kdelibs3" package; but it's 
better to remove all packages from KDE3. (I don't know all of them)
- There is no automatic profile migration (yet ?). As Felix suggests, 
just try to copy your ".kde" folder to ".trinity" and see if it works. 
If not, you must remove ".trinity" and start from a new profile.

Francois