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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+# convert which file to which file?
+# I did nto bother to build in any checks. so that file better exists and it is readable and the data will
+# be written to a writeable directory. Since this is an old config file, it is safe to assume, that is the 
+# case.
+
+#$file = $ARGV[0];
+
+# Take your hands off the rest unless you darn well knwo what you are doing
+##################################################################################
+##################################################################################
+
+open(INFO, $file);  
+ my ($section, %data);
+
+#read in all the data, split it up into hashes. Thanks again to malte for much input
+while (<>) {
+	if (/\[(.*)\]/) {
+		$sections{$section} = {%data} if $section;
+		$section = $1;
+		undef %data;
+		next;
+ 	}
+$data{$1} = $2 if /^([^=]*)=(.*)$/;
+}
+
+$sections{$section} = {%data} if $section;
+
+# do the data writing magic
+#first of all be check how many old news souerces we have
+
+$sources = $sections{'General'}->{'News sources'}; 
+#gather all news sources into a very pretty string before we write the global section
+#also give some feedback to the user
+for my $i (0..($sources-1)) { 
+	$all .= "," .$sections{"News source #$i"}->{'Name'}; 
+	$all =~s/^,//;
+}
+
+# write the main section
+print "[KNewsTicker]\n";
+
+while (($key,$dat) = each(%{$sections{'General'}})) {
+	if ($key ne "News sources") { 
+		if ($key eq "Interval") {
+			$key="Update interval";
+				}
+		if ($key eq "Scroll most recent only") {
+			$key="Scroll most recent headlines only";
+				}
+		print "$key=$dat\n";
+		} else {
+		print "News sources=".$all."\n";
+		}	
+
+}
+
+# next merge the old scrolling section into the KNewticker Section
+while (($key,$dat) = each(%{$sections{'Scrolling'}})) {
+	 if ($key eq "Background") {
+                $key="Background color";
+		
+                } 
+	 if ($key eq "Foreground") {
+                $key="Foreground color";
+                }
+	 if ($key eq "Highlighted") {
+                $key="Highlighted color";
+                }
+	 if ($key eq "Underline highlighted") {
+                $key="Underline highlighted headlines";
+                }
+	 if (($key eq "Direction") && ($dat eq "Left")) {
+		$key ="Scrolling direction";
+		$dat = "0";	
+
+} 
+if (($key eq "Direction") && ($dat ne "Left")) {
+
+		$key ="Scrolling direction";
+
+}
+if ($key eq "Speed") {
+	$key="Scrolling speed";
+}
+
+
+
+ print "$key=$dat\n"; 
+} 
+
+# next we write the news sources, making sure we have the correct headers
+for my $i (0..($sources-1)) { 
+
+print "\n[" .$sections{"News source #$i"}->{'Name'} ."]\n";
+	while (($key,$dat) = each(%{$sections{"News source #$i"}})) {
+	if ($key ne "Address") {
+		print "$key=$dat\n";
+		} else {
+		print "Source file=".$dat."\n";
+	}
+	} 
+}
+