konfsave 0.2.0

Easy saving and switching between multiple KDE configurations.

Konfsave

Konfsave is a KDE config manager. That is, it allows you to save, back up, and easily switch between different KDE configurations. Each configuration is stored as a profile; the script allows you to save the current configuration as a named profile, and then load profiles by name. Of course, it's also possible to take these profiles somewhere else by just copying their folder.

OK, I lied. Although this is supposed to be a KDE config manager, it can work for pretty much anything that's stored in your home directory. You still have to be on a UNIX-like system, however. Just change the paths in config.ini to suit your needs and use '--no-restart' to disable restarting the Plasma shell if you don't care about its configs.

Inspired by https://github.com/Prayag2/konsave.

Notable features

• Storing the current configuration as a profile
• Remembering which profile is active at the moment
• Updating profiles with new configuration
• Switching between profiles
• Listing and configuring paths to save (both files and directories are supported)
• Per-profile configuration of additional paths to save or exclude by default
• Specifying additional paths to include or exclude using command-line arguments
• Optionally following symlinks when saving paths

Requirements

Python 3.8+ is required.

Installation & Usage

The configuration file, config.ini, is stored in ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/konfsave.
Usage instructions can be viewed with konfsave --help.

There are 2 installation options:

PyPI

Konfsave is on PyPI, which means that it can be installed with pip:
python -m pip install konfsave
After this, you should be able to run Konfsave directly from the terminal. If not, try python -m konfsave.

The crude way

__main__.py can be run as is; just download the repository. You can also run install.sh which will copy files to .config and link __main__.py to .local/bin/konfsave. Unlike the PyPI method, this will not allow you to easily update the program.

Future features

Right now, this program is WIP. Although it's useful in its current state, more features are planned, such as storing profiles as Git repositories and archiving/compressing them.

License

Copyright (c) 2021 Illia Boiko (selplacei) and contributors. All source code in this repository may only be used under the terms and conditions found in the LICENSE file.