Bug 291222

Summary: compressed and encoded data blobs should not be in config files. many stored in State field in rc files
Product: [I don't know] kde Reporter: Aaron Peterson <alpeterson>
Component: generalAssignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: nate
Priority: NOR    
Version: CVS   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Unlisted Binaries   
OS: Linux   
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Description Aaron Peterson 2012-01-10 22:16:55 UTC 
Version:           CVS (using Devel) 
OS:                Linux

rekonq, quassel  and perhaps a lot more have encoded, (I guess it is not strictly binary encoded) blobs make it hard for me to understand what they are.


I would like to be able to copy my kde configuration into /etc/skel, and have that be the system default for new users.
This is too hard now, because there are too many things to manually edit.
Blobs are not trivially edited.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Try to copy KDE's config files to /etc/skel


Actual Results:  
realize that the exact way you last left a window is saved, oh no, have to go thru and replace the blob with one from another session that has desired layout.

Expected Results:  
For performance, a blob may be nice to have kept in some sort of cache... The configuration file should be all human readable.

bug 290675 depends on this.
Comment 1 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-06 15:17:45 UTC 
Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? I am setting the status to NEEDSINFO pending your response, please change the Status back to REPORTED when you respond.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 2 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-18 03:27:28 UTC 
Dear Bug Submitter,

This is a reminder that this bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? This bug will be moved back to REPORTED Status for manual review later, which may take a while. If you are able to, please lend us a hand.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2020-09-28 23:19:06 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 397602 ***