Export/Import for User Settings
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creating yet an other profile today, so, yet again, tediously adjusting some 15 to 20 preferred setting to the new profile. Sure could use a Global Settings section that applies to every profile on the machine.
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Hi,
For the moment, the most "fast" and comfortable would be to edit directly the Preferences file.At the beginning would be cumbersome but then would be faster and easier to deploy.
You would also create a Template profile directly from Vivaldi, and paste it for new Profiles.
The only "problem" would be moving it to another Computer since some settings are User/Machine encrypted.
Look at the Tip to know more.
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@Zalex108 Thanks for the suggestion. I did try that before my first post, but because of the file layout, could not even be certain the settings I was changing are in it. Trying again: I create a new profile and close it; save a bak copy of Preferences. Open the profile, make a single setting change (turn off 'show exit confirmation') and close the profile. Then load both into Meld (gui diff program) attempting to identify the string changed. There are plenty of strings changed, but none that seem to reference the changed setting. Is there a list somewhere that maps settings-names in UI to strings we can search for in Preferences? Is there a delimiter character between settings? In a text editor, this file is a single line, 20k characters long. Short of encrypting the entire file, could not be less friendly to edit.
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Use a JSON Editor.
If you are in Windows,
JSONEdit from Tomeko it's easy and convenient, small and Portable.On another OS, I can't recommend anyone.
Look at the Tip, Extra Steps there are linked.--
There's another file containing some Settings,Local State, one folder above the "Default" or Profile Path.I'll check and try to find where is located that string.
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Nothing about the strings AFAIK.
Most are on Vivaldi branch.
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Thank You!
re: searching Preferences: appears most settings do not exist until changed from default. So better to compare default file with customized and note what has been added.
any other Linux users: Geany can make json pretty: Edit, Format, Send-selection-to: custom-command = python -m json.tool
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@s0hughes said in Export/Import for User Settings:
Geany can make json pretty: Edit, Format, Send-selection-to: custom-command = python -m json.tool
Is this related to this PlugIn too?
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@Zalex108
maybe it was.
This page says Geany includes JSON support by default since v1.25: Geany - JSON Filetype
Only plugin I have is 'Addons - Various small addons for Geany'.
