https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444974
Bug ID: 444974
Summary: Feature request: Configuration files that can be
managed as text
Product: systemsettings
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: Unspecified
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: jeffbrown....@gmail.com
Target Milestone: ---
# The wish
I would like to manage Plasma configuration via text files rather than the GUI.
That way one could copy the text file to a new machine, as opposed to spending
around an hour clicking through the Settings. One could even try out someone
else's settings -- something that's not practical when it takes a lot of work
to change them.
# What doesn't work
I tried blindly copying all my KDE config files once, and it broke Plasma.
According to someone on the NixOS forum[1] that's to be expected, because KDE
config files are a mix of human-readable and machine-generated text.
# Scope
A number of people on that NixOS forum wish for the same thing.
There are a few other apps to which the same issue applies -- off the top of my
head, Dolphin and Konsole. But at least for me, the lion's share of the
configuration work for a new system is in configuring Plasma itself.
I believe this applies to all versions of Plasma on all flavors of Linux.
[1] https://discourse.nixos.org/t/declarative-kde-configuration/15901
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