Hi,

I'm using KDE for about 7 years. First one was in Redhat 7.3, next in few versions of Fedora and now CentOS (Jazz 5.1).

It happens sometimes (rarely) that KDE settings in $HOME/.kde become corrupted somehow. My recent problem was when our AFS server has went down and something wrong happened with my $HOME/.kde stuff. My kicker panel has started to crash immediately after login into my machine/account after this. I was forced to remove $HOME/.kde and start configuring everything from beginning :-@ which wasn't simple because as IT developer (telecommunication) I'm doing a lot of stuff on Linux (like 8 to 16 applications running simultaneously on 10 desktops, some of them are citrix sessions with more desktops inside :shade:) and making everything to work as I prefer takes a lot of tweaking.

My idea is simple and straightforward (I hope).

Could you please add some kind of handy KDE settings manager?
I'm thinking about adding new section to KControl app which will allow to archive important stuff from $HOME/.kde into separate files (tar.gz ? bz2? whatever) and store them in safe location.
By default, every change in configuration done via KControl shall be backed up into default archive.
Users will got possibility to experiment with KDE settings more safely because they will be able to save current configuration before changing anything.
Next good stuff is that it will be possible to easily copy/move/distribute KDE settings between different machines or even Linux distros (export/import settings).
Could KDE perform some kind of user settings sanity check (checksums?) when it is starting? If $HOME/.kde data appears to be broken then default archive shall be restored.

What do you think about my idea?
/Joss

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