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See this coment from the MDV +Cooker ML: + +On 04/04/2012 06:07 PM, Nicolas Pomarède wrote: +><i> Hello +</I>><i> +</I>><i> today I switched on my pc : kde config was ok (backgrounds, my apps +</I>><i> shortcuts, icons, ...) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I updated some rpm (see the list below), rebooted, and on next login +</I>><i> all my kde settings were reset to the default, as if I was a new user +</I>><i> (lost taks bar settings, backgound, icon size/position, default rosa +</I>><i> colors/icons; ...). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> This is *really* tiring, I have the feeling each time some specific +</I>><i> packages are updated you "have" to loose your config (in that case, I +</I>><i> guess it could be xdg-user-dirs-gtk-0.8-11-mdv2011.0.i586, as I don't +</I>><i> see any other desktop/kde related rpm in the ones I updated). I can't +</I>><i> remember the number of times I had to recreate my kde's config from +</I>><i> scratch in the last months... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Why does it have to be this way ? Why is the upgrade process not more +</I>><i> respectful of the user's data ? (and don't tell me this is a cooker +</I>><i> only issue, I saw some similar cases when going from one mandriva +</I>><i> release to mdv 2011 and getting the same "results"). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> This is really sad, time consuming and less than motivating to remain +</I>><i> a cooker user to keep on reporting bugs to improve the distrib. There +</I>><i> should be a better balance between the breakage you can expect when +</I>><i> running cooker and the integrity of the user's config/data. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Cooker always had it's "drawbacks" (for the benefit of having the most +</I>><i> recent versions), but honnestly the overall quality has really lowered +</I>><i> during the last year or so (and I write this as someone who runs +</I>><i> several cooker machines since mandrake 6.0 in 1999, so I saw more than +</I>><i> my share of updates/breakages). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The list of updated packaged that I last updated before the reset of +</I>><i> my kde's config (obviously not all of them are responsible for it) : +</I>><i> +</I>><i> [RPM] python-gnome-menus-3.2.0.1-3-mdv2012.0.i586 installed +</I>><i> [RPM] libvncserver0-0.9.8-3-mdv2012.0.i586 installed +</I>><i> [RPM] libgnome-menu3_0-3.2.0.1-3-mdv2012.0.i586 installed +</I>><i> [RPM] libboost_system1.49.0-1.49.0-1-mdv2012.0.i586 installed +</I>><i> [RPM] libboost_signals1.49.0-1.49.0-1-mdv2012.0.i586 installed +</I>><i> [RPM] libboost_thread1.49.0-1.49.0-1-mdv2012.0.i586 installed +</I>><i> [RPM] libboost_regex1.49.0-1.49.0-1-mdv2012.0.i586 installed +</I>><i> [RPM] python-gnome-menus-3.2.0.1-2-mdv2012.0.i586 removed +</I>><i> [RPM] libdirectfb1.4_5-1.4.13-4-mdv2012.0.i586 installed +</I>><i> [RPM] libgnome-menu3_0-3.2.0.1-2-mdv2012.0.i586 removed +</I>><i> [RPM] libdirectfb1.4_5-1.4.13-3-mdv2012.0.i586 removed +</I>><i> [RPM] libvncserver0-0.9.8-2-mdv2011.0.i586 removed +</I>><i> [RPM] libgirepository1.0_1-1.32.0-2-mdv2012.0.i586 installed +</I>><i> [RPM] libdirectfb-devel-1.4.13-4-mdv2012.0.i586 installed +</I>><i> [RPM] libSDL1.2_0-1.2.15-2-mdv2012.0.i586 installed +</I>><i> [RPM] automake-1.11.4-1-mdv2012.0.noarch installed +</I>><i> [RPM] timezone-java-2012b-2-mdv2012.0.i586 installed +</I>><i> [RPM] timezone-2012b-2-mdv2012.0.i586 installed +</I>><i> [RPM] gobject-introspection-1.32.0-2-mdv2012.0.i586 installed +</I>><i> [RPM] libSDL-devel-1.2.15-2-mdv2012.0.i586 installed +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Nicolas +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I> + +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="013801.html">[Mageia-dev] KDE configuration file regressions +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="013914.html">[Mageia-dev] KDE configuration file regressions +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#13913">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#13913">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#13913">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#13913">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |