Bug 349015

Summary:	Upgrading from kate4 does not provide any upgrading instructions, loses all data
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Gabriele Tozzi <bodom>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	critical	CC:	christoph
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.0.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Gabriele Tozzi 2015-06-11 07:48:33 UTC

Hi there,

a "profane" user upgrading from kate4 to kate5 gets is development settings completely wiped out as a result of the upgrade.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install KDE4/kate4.x
2. Save your settings/data
3.Upgrade to KDE5/kate5.0.0

Actual Results:  
- All the session data is lost
- All the custom syntax files are lost
- Probably more settings i didn't use are lost, everything saved into ~/.kde/* in general

Expected Results:  
Kate5 showing a BIG warning on first run explaining why all the user data is lost and what is changed and instructing the user on how to recover it:
- ~/.kde is now ~/.local
- copy ~/.kde/share/apps/kate as ~/.local/share/kate
- copy ~/.kde/share/apps/katepart as ~/.local/share/katepart5

Comment 1 Christoph Cullmann 2018-08-15 20:29:08 UTC

Sadly nobody had time to take care of this and now it is too late to invest time for that, given that the KF5 version is out since 4 years.