how to disable kubuntu-default-settings

[Derek Broughton]

Michael Bach (gmx) wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Michael Bach (gmx) wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> A page that I found a while ago [1] and some recent discussion on
>>> another thread (first impressions of dolphin) made me actually bring up
>>> this question:
>>>
>>> How to disable kubuntu-default-settings entirely?
>>>
>>> Simply removing the package doesn't work because of dependencies.
>> 
>> Sure it does.  The only thing dependent on it is kubuntu-desktop (and
>> something named ichthux-desktop, but that's definitely non-standard).
>> kubuntu-desktop is purely a metapackage to force installation of things
>> exactly like kubuntu-default-settings.
> 
> So, but if I were to remove kubuntu-desktop or kubuntu-default-settings
> I would end up with broken dependencies of other packages!?

No.  You would however prevent Adept from doing a clean install when a new
release is available (or so I understand - never having used Adept for such
a purpose...).

>>> What is it exactly that this package changes?
>> 
>> It installs some wallpaper, some themes, huge numbers of default config
>> files and cursors.
> 
> Ok. This is what the package description says as well.
> 
>> None of these should actually make any difference if
>> you have already used the apps involved.  ie, it doesn't change the
>> configs under ~/.kde/.
> 
> But on a fresh user accout, ~/.kde/ is almost "empty" and gets filled
> with user data (eg. Kontact) or by modified settings of applications.

Absolutely.  If you were to create a new user with a
kubuntu-default-settings from Dappper, then upgrade to Feisty and create
another new user, probably the two user environments would look noticeably
different.  The user you've had since Hoary, though, wouldn't see a change
(at least not due to this package).

> However, the initial applications settings (some) are dictated by
> settings in /usr/share , under normal circumstances.
> 
> And it does more: To get a grips of what this package does I downloaded
> it and browsed its content with midnight commander (mc handels deb
> packages transparently). It seems that the packages creates a tree of
> directories in /usr/share/kubuntu-default-settings in which it puts

I said that...  It isn't anything you'll ever notice.

> configuration files for a number of kde apps. Second, it writes a
> /etc/kderc which makes kde using a different default directory for
> application configurations:
> 
... 
> This is my recently modified /etc/kderc. Of course, everything in ~/.kde
>   still has priority.

Exactly.  So where's the problem?
-- 
derek