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An aspect causing much difficulty is migrating data to the new Personal Information Manager - Kontact |
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+ | #contemporary releases have a special command line tool, ''pimsettingexporter'', which starts a GUI window from which all relevant settings AND data can be exported/reimported |
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Those migrating from KDE 3 to KDE 4 need to pick a "quiet time" because many other apps have been replaced or substantially changed |
Those migrating from KDE 3 to KDE 4 need to pick a "quiet time" because many other apps have been replaced or substantially changed |
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+ | As of early 2015, KFramework 5, the successor to KDE4 is being implemented concurrently with KDE4 |
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+ | --[[User:Rpeters|Rod]] ([[User talk:Rpeters|talk]]) 14:02, 18 January 2015 (AEDT) |
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Latest revision as of 14:11, 31 March 2015
KDE 4 is a substantial re-work of KDE. An overview is provided with most Distributions and at:
An aspect causing much difficulty is migrating data to the new Personal Information Manager - Kontact
- essential to copy each users PIM data
- for earlier releases of KDE 4 see KMail manual, FAQ # 6.11
- using the commands cp - a or rsync -av
- for earlier releases of KDE 4 see KMail manual, FAQ # 6.11
- contemporary releases have a special command line tool, pimsettingexporter, which starts a GUI window from which all relevant settings AND data can be exported/reimported
Those migrating from KDE 3 to KDE 4 need to pick a "quiet time" because many other apps have been replaced or substantially changed
As of early 2015, KFramework 5, the successor to KDE4 is being implemented concurrently with KDE4