> 2011/11/13 Laurent Dard <f.couperin@online.fr>:
>> Vadim Zhukov wrote :
>>> Anyway, I've seen that
>>> Trinity does not allow easy migration from KDE3, so one of the main
>>> points to port it here is gone.
>>
>> What's the difficulties you are expecting with the migration? Just do
>> it!
>>
>> * You need cmake
>>  (http://openports.se/devel/cmake)
>>
>> * As a beginning, you need to build and install:
>>  http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/trinity/releases/3.5.13/dependencies/qt3-3.3.8.d.tar.gz
>>  http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/trinity/releases/3.5.13/dependencies/tqtinterface-3.5.13.tar.gz
>>  http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/trinity/releases/3.5.13/dependencies/arts-3.5.13.tar.gz
>>  http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/trinity/releases/3.5.13/kdelibs-3.5.13.tar.gz
>>  http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/trinity/releases/3.5.13/kdebase-3.5.13.tar.gz
>>
>> * You must copy the content of the kde3 home directory to the new
>> trinity
>>  home directory if you want to preserve personal settings
>>
>> Take a look at:
>>  http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Developers/HowToBuild
>> Adapt to your system the configure options:
>>  http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Developers/DistroSpecificBuilds
>> Choose other packages from here:
>>  http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/trinity/releases/3.5.13/
>> And ask for help on the users mailing list:
>>  http://www.trinitydesktop.org/mailinglist.php
>>
>> (Trinity developpers: please correct me if I'm wrong)
>
> Thanks, Laurent. Problem is not in the packaging itself; I want to
> have ability to migrate KDE3 users to something better (read:
> something that's not dead upstream), either TDE or KDE4. If the
> profiles could be easily migrated from KDE3 to TDE (preferrably with
> no more changes than ~/.kde => ~/.tde), it's what I'm searching for.

<snip>

For most applications, moving ~/.kde to ~/.trinity  and replacing all
instances of .kde with .trinity in the ~/.trinity folder will suffice.
There are a few "gotchas" to be aware of (listed somewhat poorly on the
Etherpad), but they do not come up very frequently in practice.

Tim