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<H1>[Mageia-dev] KDE configuration file regressions</H1>
<B>Frank Griffin</B>
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<I>Thu Apr 5 13:34:33 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On 04/02/2012 10:14 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>><i>
</I>>><i> Rebooting does it - resets the volume level to 1%.
</I>><i> While it /shouldn't/ matter, can you *untick* the options in kmix
</I>><i> related to saving/restoring the volumes and see if that helps?
</I>><i>
</I>><i>
</I>Mixer -> Settings -> Configure KMix -> Uncheck restore volumes on login
Now the volume stays at 100%.
This resetting of config data appears to be an upstream problem that
needs to be patched by distro packagers. 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>
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