Migrating From SuSE to (K)Ubuntu

[Scott]

Al Gordon wrote:
> Hi, all.
> 
> I have friend who is running one of the later SuSE distros who is
> interested in switching to Ubuntu/kubuntu-desktop.  He wants to keep
> his home directory intact, but is concerned that the various config
> files that come with kubuntu-desktop aren't going to be 100%
> compatible with what he currently has.  I think that this is a valid
> concern, since I did a similar setup for someone else recently, and
> the Ubuntu KDE environment looked like total crap with the SuSE KDE
> settings that were in that user's home directory.  Fonts were shot,
> the background images obviously didn't work, etc.

It doesn't help that SUSE uses a non-standard setup for KDE or GNOME (at
least that was my experience when I last looked at SUSE 10.0).  The
menus have little in common with freedesktop.org standards (um er
suggestions).  On the other hand, Ubuntu appears to follow them. There's
a big migration problem right there.

I'd go with the backup idea another respondant mentioned here and see
what happens.  I'd forget about salvaging any old menu items though.

About the only things that are likely usable later on are some (or mybe
all) of the the font, mail, web browser, and theme directories and thier
contents (and similar subdirectories of .kde).  At least that's what
I've found attempting this type of thing.


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