Bug 268448

Summary:	I wish you would give more attantion to user settings by upgrades
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	Mathias D <xwarman>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	cfeck
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description Mathias D 2011-03-14 11:29:06 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.1) 
OS:                Linux

I noticed that many of kde bugs resulting in bad managed setting files in .kde folder. Since many versions now I was able to fix the most crashes of kde software by deleting whole .kde directory. I personalize my kde and am angry if that happans most of time when upgrading to newer versions of that software. Last time I had differnd errors, I fixed so, was the kde 4.6 upgrade until now. The folders are not well-arranged for me to pic up pices of it and delete them one by one. I think: If kde is personable very well, you SHOULD give more attantion to user files. That could may help to fix many errors. 

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
Start asking users witch made bug reports, if they could fix their erors by simpel deleting .kde folder. 

Actual Results:  
errors disappear simply by deleting .kde folder

Expected Results:  
errors could better be fixed when lying more focus on differnet settings, users made.

I noticed that very often after upgrades since last years.

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2011-03-14 16:01:32 UTC

Please report this problem for each application/setting that is causing bugs when upgrading. Ideally, add the previous configuration files that are causing problems. Those cases need to be fixed on a per-application base.

The other option would be some way to reset the settings per application, without losing all of .kde/share/ contents. This is bug 74883.