I'm using unison to synchronise a user's home folder between machines but the one thing I specifically don't want to synchronise is any of the desktop settings especially as the machines are desktop workstations, laptops and net books, all with different screen resolutions, possibly different numbers of virtual desktops, widgets etc.

I've searched around on this forum and elsewhere and so far come up with skipping $KDEHOME/share/config/plasma*

Playing around with making changes and watching for them with find $KDEHOME -mmin -1 has given me the following list of files to skip

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$KDEHOME/share/config/plasma*
$KDEHOME/share/config/systemsettingsrc
$KDEHOME/share/config/kwinrc

Does anyone have any items to add to this list (desktop config only - I'm already skipping nepomuk/virtuouso)?
Is there any definitive list of desktop configuration files anywhere?

Does that involve stuff like font settings, widget style, and the like? Or those you want synchronized?

einar wrote:Does that involve stuff like font settings, widget style, and the like? Or those you want synchronized?

I'd prefer to skip these too, if possible, as the screen size and layout on (my wife's) netbook may mean that I (or she) will want to set up something special.

The file "systemsettingsrc" also contains information on the desired type of appearance, and whether to use tooltips or not. It doesn't store any resolution specific information as far as I know.

The colour scheme and widget style are stored in $KDEHOME/config/kdeglobals. Be aware that this file is used for quite a few other things as well.
With regards to fonts, I think that information may be stored in ~/.fonts.conf (it is a cross-desktop file used by Fontconfig).

Ok, going on what I've found plus the responses I've had on this thread I'm going to try

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ignore = Name .kde*/share/config/*.SAV
ignore = Name .kde*/share/config/*.new
ignore = Name .kde*/share/config/*.lock.*

ignore = Name .kde*/share/config/plasma*
ignore = Name .kde*/share/config/systemsettingsrc
ignore = Name .kde*/share/config/kwinrc
ignore = Name .kde*/share/config/kmix*
ignore = Path .kde*/share/apps/kmix
ignore = Name .kde*/share/config/kdeglobals
ignore = Name .kde*/share/config/kglobalshortcutsrc
ignore = Name .kde*/share/config/krunnerrc
ignore = Name .kde*/share/config/activitymanager-pluginsrc
ignore = Name .kde*/share/config/activitymanagerrc

I've added kmix since it contains info about the sound hardware which will differ between machines.

As it is quite large, you probably also want to skip ~/.kde4/share/apps/nepomuk as well - particularly as you are skipping files related to activities.

bcooksley wrote:As it is quite large, you probably also want to skip ~/.kde4/share/apps/nepomuk as well - particularly as you are skipping files related to activities.

I missed that from the list but I'd already marked down nepomuk to be skipped