https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426813

--- Comment #32 from Doug Glenn <d...@wildhair.org> ---
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #31)
> Yeah there was a brief period of time during which those items were
> inappropriately written to people's config files. The bug causing this to
> happen has been fixed now, but it's possible that you would still be
> affected if it happened to you during that period of time. Removing them is
> a perfectly acceptable way to fix it for yourself.

Considering the time stamp of the participants, true. What flummoxed me was the
location. The convention for the .config directory originally was in this
format $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/subdir/filename, so I was looking for
.config/kde/configuration file location. It never occurred to me they would be
in the base of the .config file. The KDE configuration file location has
shifted a time or two since it was originally released so I was actually poking
around the ./local directory looking. The issue wasn't a major file to me and I
knew I'd eventually get around to finding an answer. I do wish the files would
eventually follow the convention, but innovation doesn't occur without breaking
a rule or two and the growth of Linux, KDE and the other windowing systems is
phenomenal. When I ran across it in 1995 you had to know the specific hardware
configuration and chipset of the video card to get X to run and all the apps
had to be built in order to run. It was a daunting experience but I knew OS/2
was in it's death spiral and I was desperate not to be forced into using any
Microsoft products at home. I switched to Linux full time in 1997 and the
change from the 1995 version was profound. The growth and maturity has
continued to defy my expectations and I don't see that changing.

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