https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445556
Bug ID: 445556
Summary: add way to export current settings
Product: systemsettings
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: tobi.goerg...@gmail.com
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
Migrating from one system to another would be way easier, if KDE featured an
option to export the configuration of the current system settings. Obviously,
this should not include hardware-specific configurations like network or sound
configuration and security-relevant configurations like the firewall (though
these might be optional via opt-in).
This export feature should include all settings but the following:
- Users (obviously)
- KDE-password-storage (optional)
- online-access (optional)
- backups (optional?)
- all settings of the network category (though e.g. firewall might be
optional)
- everything of the hardware-category (though energy-settings might be
optional)
- software updates (might be a security / stability issue?)
Every option remaining should be de-selectable or selectable, if only partial
exports are wanted.
Selected themes should either be included as a link to the theme that's then
downloaded or optionally directly in the export-file, without the need to
download it (might be useful if themes are not available anymore)
It might also be worth a thought if every KDE program should include such an
option, saving all exports in one specific location, making it possible to
export the configuration of the system and the used programs, that's ones
imported on another system (recognizing, which settings config belongs to which
program) and applying the configuration once making a new installation of a
highly customized system way easier.
This approach also spreads the responsibility for this feature, so that
plasma's system settings doesn't have to include the export logic for all KDE
programs, but every application is responsible on it's own. Importing settings
should also be handled on a per-application level, so that system settings
would only forward the to-be-imported settings to the application, which itself
applies the settings (so that system settings only works like a "hub"
connecting the config export-and-import functionality of the applications, only
calling them to export their config or import it, though it might be smarter if
the export is handled actually on a per-application-level and only the import
is triggered on one place of the system.
This could also include the feature on supported systems to install
applications, which have a config file to be restored that's not installed on
the system, making the configuration of a new system even faster, maybe
including an option to export a list of installed applications that should be
exported as well.
Settings that potentially include personal information should be disabled by
default.
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