I am looking into migrating from kubuntu 14.04 which has KDE 4 to a newer version which has Plasma and Framworks 5.
My previous experience is that it is no good to copy all user configuration files in ~/.kde/
and ~/.local/
. In some cases this seems to give unexpected behavior of applications. On the other hand there are many configuration intense applications for which I successfully migrated them in the past. In some cases I would want to avoid to copy them because I know that they cannot be consistently reused (e.g. desktop scheme settings). In other cases I would want to migrate the settings but do not know where they are stored (e.g. system wide shortcuts).
Since many users will want to copy their configuration to save time, it would be good to share a whitelist for configuration files and application data which can rather safely be copied. Is there any such list to start from?