Re: Tansparency

Neil Stevens <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:03:54 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.look
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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On Wednesday September 11, 2002 06:00, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 September 2002 05:55, Matt Perry wrote:
> > If worst comes to worst, rm -rf ~/.kde* and start over.
>
> please be carefule with recommending this as a course of action. it will
> remove the user's bookmarks, addressbook, kjots books, ALL of their
> settings and other assorted items.
>
> i've dealth with a few ... uh .. unhappy people on IRC after having been
> told do that ;-)

So to summarize:  If you don't know what the user's problem is, or you 
don't know what file to remove, don't tell the user to remove anything at 
all!

As a doctor's oath says: Do No Harm.

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Neil Stevens - [email protected]
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding
because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they
have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher
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