Migrating kde data from kde3 to kde4

2010-06-13 Thread Stan Goodman
I have installed oS v11.2 on a clean HD in a box that also contains another HD which contains v11.1/kde3. I want to copy the data from the old system to the newer one, which is no problem except for the data of the kde apps. If it were not for the great difference between the two kde versions,

Re: Migrating kde data from kde3 to kde4

2010-06-13 Thread Boris shtrasman
If you are going to use kde 4.4 make sure to copy your resource files for example if you are using kaddressbook backup the file : ** *.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf* After resent upgrade (from 4.3.4 to 4.4.3) there was a bug that did not display the contacts. I would recommend to copy also all relat

Re: Migrating kde data from kde3 to kde4

2010-06-13 Thread Stan Goodman
On Sunday 13 June 2010 10:20:20 Boris shtrasman wrote: > If you are going to use kde 4.4 make sure to copy your resource files > for example if you are using kaddressbook backup the file : > ** *.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf* > > After resent upgrade (from 4.3.4 to 4.4.3) there was a bug that did

Fwd: gcc-4.5.0 Success Story with Freecell Solver

2010-06-13 Thread Shlomi Fish
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: gcc-4.5.0 Success Story with Freecell Solver Date: Sunday 13 Jun 2010, 17:21:00 From: Shlomi Fish To: Freecell Solving Discussions Executive summary: I have built installed gcc-4.5.0 and after Freecell Solver ran faster, after I compiled it

Re: Migrating kde data from kde3 to kde4

2010-06-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
Stan, for KDE 3 -> 4 I copy over only the individual apps' settings, such as Kmail. Those should be in ~/.kde[4]/share/apps. You can copy over that whole directory, but I prefer doing it app by app. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com __

Re: Migrating kde data from kde3 to kde4

2010-06-13 Thread Stan Goodman
On Sunday 13 June 2010 19:35:59 you wrote: > On 6/13/10, Stan Goodman wrote: > > If it were not for the great difference between the two kde versions, > > I would simply carry over the .kde directory, and be assured that I > > had captured all the data. But the v11.1 system contains both .kde > >

Re: Migrating kde data from kde3 to kde4

2010-06-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 14 June 2010 00:03, Stan Goodman wrote: > I too keep /home on a separate partition, and have thought about keeping > the same /home partition intact across upgrades, but I have never dared to > do so. So my situation is different enough from yours that I still need to > ask the following questi

Re: gcc-4.5.0 Success Story with Freecell Solver

2010-06-13 Thread Amos Shapira
There was an item on slashdot about LLVM project, have you tested it? On 6/14/10, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > -- Forwarded Message -- > > Subject: gcc-4.5.0 Success Story with Freecell Solver > Date: Sunday 13 Jun 2010, 17:21:00 > From: Shlomi Fish > To: Freecell Solving Discussions

Problems of a desktop Linux distribution GUI sudo

2010-06-13 Thread Elazar Leibovich
When using my Ubuntu I used to make the following pattern, whenever an update symbol showed up in the "taskbar" above (in gnome it's the upper panel), I clicked on it, entered my password to sudo up the privileges of the update process, and installed the needed packages to the machine. Then I thou

Re: Problems of a desktop Linux distribution GUI sudo

2010-06-13 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 14, 2010, at 8:49 AM, Elazar Leibovich wrote: It can't be that bad, I thought, I can probably only sudo a known program. Alas, in the latest version of Ubuntu the sudoers file says %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL At least it still requires you to enter a password. This prevents a random pe

Re: Problems of a desktop Linux distribution GUI sudo

2010-06-13 Thread Elazar Leibovich
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:12 AM, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jun 14, 2010, at 8:49 AM, Elazar Leibovich wrote: > >> >> It can't be that bad, I thought, I can probably only sudo a known program. >> Alas, in the latest version of Ubuntu the sudoers file says >> >>