On 2016/06/25 07:36 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
Jan Stolarek composed on 2016-06-24 22:58 (UTC+0200):
I have an old machine that still runs KDE 3. I plan to install Debian 8 with Trinity R14. Does R14 support settings migration from KDE3? Or will all the settings be lost?
Which distro was running KDE3?
R14 keeps settings in ~/.trinity, while KDE3 keeps settings in either ~/.kde or possibly ~/.kde3, depending on the distro running it.
I recently did a "migration" that may have been much like you propose, for a friend dependent on TTS functionality. He had KDE3 on openSUSE 13.1, 12.2 and 11.3. For him I put TDE on both openSUSE 42.1 and on Debian Stretch.
For my friend, I copied 13.1's ~/.kde/ to ~/.trinity/ using MC. IIRC, most, but not all, KDE3 desktop settings were preserved in TDE. We were pleased overall with the results. The few settings that were not carried over were easy enough to adjust.
After installing TDE on a machine where KDE3 was previously installed, settings from .kde3 are migrated automatically to ./trinity at the first logon into R14. There may be some hick-ups here and there in some special cases, anyhow the original settings in .kde3 are maintained and you can always fix special cases manually.
Cheers Michele