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Old 06-02-2006, 08:00 AM   #1
yumener
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copy the settings of gnome and kde


is it possible to copy the settings of gnome or
kde from a debian installation to a fedora core
installation?

The reason I want to do this is that I always
found the default appearance looking of fedora
core (now I used 5) is ugly, mostly because
of the fonts used. I found the default setting
of Debian installatin just beside me looks
very nice. These two neighbor computers have
the same hardwares. I do not want expend much
time in configure gnome and kde on Fedora Core.

I am wondering if there is general/univseral
configure file for KDE or GNOME, now assume
the version is not a problem.

thanks.
 
Old 06-02-2006, 08:23 AM   #2
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I don't see why not. You just need to copy the settings files from your .kde and .gnome (?) folders in the home directory to the home directory of the other system. Of course, you'll also have to make sure you have the same fonts, themes, and such installed, and you may have to reconfigure some things like device settings when you do. It's probably better to copy the rc files for each application individually than to overwrite everything at once, since there may be some apps you want to keep the settings for and others that just don't exist on the target system.

Personally, I just prefer setting everything by hand to avoid the conflicts that can arise from trusting external settings files. But that's just me.
 
  


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