fWindows Data Migration Tool

King InuYasha ngompa13 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 2 22:33:34 UTC 2008


I'm gonna take a guess and say that Office file type associations are what
it is talking about, specifically migrating what Office file type
associations. That can be left alone....

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin at ncsu.edu> wrote:

> Ahmed Kamal wrote:
> > Microsoft's File and Settings transfer tool migrates:
> >
> >    *
> >
> >       Internet Explorer settings
> >
> Good idea. Ditto firefox
> >
> >    *
> >
> >       Outlook Express settings and store
> >
> >    *
> >
> >       Outlook settings and store
> >
> Difficult due to diversity of preferred mail clients among Fedora users.
> Evo is the sane default, but Tbird usage is still massive.
> >
> >    *
> >
> >       Dial-Up connections
> >
> Do we care? Not hard to do either way.
> >
> >    *
> >
> >       Phone and modem options
> >
> Simple enough.
> >
> >    *
> >
> >       Accessibility
> >
> Might not be 1:1 here, but good faith effort could make this work
> >
> >    *
> >
> >       Screen saver selection
> >
> Not likely :(
> >
> >    *
> >
> >       Fonts
> >
> Can be done. Do we want to encourage copying the fonts from windows
> though? (The settings themselves are useless unless we go get the fonts
> which back them)
> >
> >    *
> >
> >       Folder options
> >
> >    *
> >
> >       Taskbar settings
> >
> Not sure about the correspondence here
> >
> >    *
> >
> >       Mouse and keyboard settings
> >
> Can do
> >
> >    *
> >
> >       Sounds settings
> >
> Could get interesting. Fedora has always had a more sophisticated view
> of the sound devices than windows.
> >
> >    *
> >
> >       Regional options
> >
> Simple, and a good thing to have.
> >
> >    *
> >
> >       Office settings
> >
> Likely to be harder than its worth. OOo and MSOffice are always juuust
> different enough that they don't cooperate well.
> >
> >    *
> >
> >       Network drives and printers
> >
> Not too hard.
> >
> >    *
> >
> >       Desktop folder
> >
> >    *
> >
> >       My Documents folder
> >
> >    *
> >
> >       My Pictures folder
> >
> >    *
> >
> >       Favorites folder
> >
> >    *
> >
> >       Cookies folder
> >
> Gets back to the core "mirroring" aspect.
> >
> >    *
> >
> >       Common Office file types
> >
> Not sure what this one means.
>
>
> --CJD
>
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