> On Jun 18, 2019, at 8:05 PM, David T. via gnucash-user
> <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I am a long time user of gnucash on a Mac, and am now transitioning to either
> windows or linux; I'm still sorting out which.
> This message is decidedly NOT a request for anyone's input on that choice,
> however.
> What I am trying to figure out is how to get the many customized preferences
> I have made over the years-- such as colors for specific accounts or the
> screen layout-- migrated from my Mac to the new OS.
> I see from the wiki that there are basically four classes of supporting files
> location, although one (GTK_DATA_HOME) is blank in all OSes.
> I believe that I must copy the files I find in my Mac at these four locations
> into their correlating locations on the destination OS, (e.g., copy
> ~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/.local/share/gtk3.0/settings.ini to
> c:\users\david\AppData\Local\gtk-3.0\settings.ini) to but I'd like
> confirmation that I have this right.
> TIA,David T.
David,
There are three pieces to that puzzle. The easier two are the application state
and any Gtk styling that you've applied: Simply copy the files to the
corresponding locations on the new system, according to the Configuration
Locations wiki article. [1]
The third, preferences, is hard because all three platforms store their
preferences in different ways. MacOS uses a special XML file called a Property
List (located in ~/Library/Preferences/org.gnucash.gnucash). MS Windows uses
the registry, and Linux uses an ini-style file in $XDG_HOME/dconf that appears
to contain all of the preferences for all applications on the system. The piece
of Glib that we use for that, GSettings [2], exposes no API for converting one
to another. Each is a well-defined structure and since MacOS property lists are
XML the logical tool to use for transformation is XSLT, but no pre-written
"stylesheets" showed up when I googled.
Regards,
John Ralls
[1] https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations
[2] https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/settings.html
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