natty: no KDE desktop

[Dotan Cohen]

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 01:10, D. R. Evans <doc.evans at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, so I fixed the issue, but it was pretty horrible.
>
> 1. For reasons I cannot even guess at, the upgrade removed the
> plasma-desktop package.
>
> 2. When I installed that package manually, I could at least get the KDE
> desktop again. BUT somehow all my settings (everything!) had disappeared
> into vapour. Fortunately, all the important stuff (I hope) was backed up
> separately, but I didn't have any record of the actual widgets, etc. and so
> I'm trying to put all that stuff back manually. And there are doubtless
> some programs I rarely use whose config has been lost; I just hope there
> weren't any important data that I didn't include in my backup script.
>
> I've now included my ~/.kde hierarchy in my hourly backup script, so next
> time everything disappears I should have a current copy of it all readily
> available.
>
>  Doc
>

Might I have a look at that backup script? I'm unhappy with my current
backup strategy and I'm looking for something more robust.

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