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I realise that this is more of a KDE problem, but I am sure I am not the only one seeing it, so I wonder whether anybody has any sensible advice on dealing with it.

I have a separate /home partition, which is mounted both by my Mageia 1 instance and by the new Mageia 2 one. Trouble is, it would seem that the contents of the .kde4 directory are not quite compatible between the two KDE versions. In the initial stages of looking at a new distro I inevitably switch between the new one and the old one, and the result is a messy screen under both systems.

I have now put in a little script run by rc.local which swaps .kde directories for all user accounts according to the OS being booted, but I wonder whether that's the right way to go. Is there perhaps any way of telling KDE to use, e.g., .kde4-mga2 rather than .kde? Or anything on those lines?

In general there are always problems, when you use one set of settings with two different KDE version, there are even problems using an x86_64 and one i586 system of the same KDE version together with the same settings. In general you shouldn't do this, but if you need to complain about it at KDE bugzilla: https://bugs.kde.org/
Another way would be to have two different users, one for each distro version.

Also it's recommended to move away/rename ~/.kde4/ after an upgrade, sometimes even after minor KDE upgrades.