kderc

Ștefan Suciu 2014-11-11

Version: 0.006 alpha

A KDE configuration helper tool.

Acknowledgements

Inspired from the kdeSetup.sh script of the linuxTweaks project. Thank you!

Description

The main difference between this application and the kdeSetup.sh script is that the KDE configuration options are stored separately in a YAML file.

Another important difference is a feature to read and collect the existing configurations before applying the new configurations and create a so called reset YAML file. This reset file can be used to restore the old configurations.

A planned feature is to implement the export command. This command will generate a custom shell script like the kdeSetup.sh from the linuxTweaks project.

The down side of this approach is a much heavier dependency chain, in this particular case: Perl and a number of required modules (Moose, MooseX::App, etc.).

Two items in the kde-font.yml example configuration file:

# The setting section:
---
settings:
  -
    file: kdeglobals
    group: General
    key: desktopFont
    value: 'Sans Serif,11,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0'
  -
    file: kdeglobals
    group: General
    key: fixed
    value: 'Monospace,11,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0'

Requirements

Requirements:

KDE4:

kwriteconfig
kreadconfig

Perl and the required modules:

Moose
MooseX::App
(...)

Quick Usage

Run the KDE configure commands but use --dryrun, first, to see how the commands will look like and how will be the values changed:

$ kderc run --in examples/kde-fonts.yml --dryrun

Change all the settings in the KDE fonts configuration section:

$ kderc run --in examples/kde-fonts.yml

The previous command automaticaly created a new YAML file: examples/kde-fonts-reset-2014-11-11T17:11:58.yml with the old configuration values. We can now restore the old settings, if we want:

$ kderc run --in examples/kde-fonts-reset-2014-11-11T17:11:58.yml

There is also a --out option for the YAML configuration reset file:

$ kderc run --in examples/kde-fonts.yml --out reset.yml

License And Copyright

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 dated June, 1991 or at your option any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

A copy of the GNU General Public License is available in the source tree; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

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