[arch-general] Broken kwallet after kde 4.4.4 update

[Lukáš Jirkovský]

On 3 June 2010 15:47, Marek Otahal <markotahal at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It could be worse. For me it broke everything visible (at least plasma
>> configuration was gone) and I had to clean my .kde4 and configure
>> everything again.
> Well, I'd like to thank everybody for support, I finally decided to spent
> 4hours and revert back to a (luckily made) backup. Later I upgraded again and
> everything works well now. So I believe the cause was a broken upgrade process
> on my side (kdelibs,..)
>
> Talking about a clean .kde4, this is a common but radical solution, is there
> and easy way to perserve IM history, mails, kwallet passwords and whatnot.. or
> is this all hidden (and lost) somewhere in this dir and has to be copied
> manually?
> Thanks again, Marek
>
> --
>
> Marek Otahal :o)
>

Actually you don't have to start from scratch. Usually when you need
to start with a clean .kde4 it's because plasma (or some other basic
component of desktop) have broken configuration. Fortunately
configuration of other applications (especially if they were not
running in time of breakage) shouldn't be touched.

What I did after breakage of my kde settings is that I moved .kde4 to
.kde4.old and did a basic configuration (in my case configuring plasma
theme and adding widgets) again. Then I copied application (kdevelop,
amarok, kopete…) settings* from .kde4.old to the new .kde4.

Lukas



* The application settings can be found in .kde4/share/apps and in
.kde4/share/config.