[arch-general] Broken kwallet after kde 4.4.4 update

[Marek Otahal]

On Thursday 03 of June 2010 16:00:26 Lukáš Jirkovský wrote:
> 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.

Thanks a lot! I'll try that next time I need it. It's at least better that 
setting everything from scratch. 
Ahoj, M.
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Marek Otahal :o)