Bug 186316

Summary:	Prevent KDE apps from loosing their settings and data ever
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	Michał Gawroński <dinth>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs <unassigned-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	ben, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Unlisted Binaries
OS:	Linux
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Description Michał Gawroński 2009-03-06 09:58:32 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Unspecified Linux

One of greatest things in KDE4 is lots of configuration and presonalisation options. But unfortunately, spending lots of time on personalisation of applications is now completly unprofitable. Im not doing anything special on my system, running on freshly installed, stable Arch with KDE 4.2.1 - only checking email, IM-ing, checking RSS feeds, browsing files with dolphin, etc. But ive cannot work on this system even half of a day without loosing settings of some applications.
Every crash causes loosing settings of application - not only this made in crashed session, but all of them. Akonadi sometimes loose all its settings (mails, contacts) without any visible reason.
There are lots of bugs which causes loosing data by applications, and even more causing loosing settings, and i dont think all of them will be repaired soon.

So im proposing some kind of mechanism, which should save application settings not only when cleanly closing app, but after any change to them, and also periodicaly (once a half hour?) backing it all up.

Comment 1 Ben Creasy 2018-02-23 21:00:47 UTC

Reasonable idea. I think this could be moved to a more specific product but I'm not sure where.

In the meantime, you can backup your settings with dotfiles, or by running a cronjob which syncs (using, e.g., rsync) to send the settings to a remote server periodically. I do both - you can request access to my dotfiles (https://gitlab.com/jcrben-staples/dotfiles-group/dotfiles) to see how I do it, altho it's probably not perfect.

Comment 2 Ben Creasy 2018-02-23 21:03:44 UTC

synchronize kde environment between multiple machines https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179841 could tie into this

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2020-09-29 03:51:40 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 60894 ***