quasselconf

This is a simple Python 3 application that uses PyQt5 to read (and, in the future, write) Quassel configuration files.

Quassel stores QVariants encoded as a string / bytestream in its configuration files, most notably to store the database connection data. As a result, this information can only be accessed and modified by quassel itself. This program is an attempt to make reading and modifying those files much easier.

Currently, all this program does is dump the specified quassel config file to terminal with all QVariants (or other objects) replaced by their string representation. That translates the following configuration file:

[Config]
Version=1

[Core]
CoreState=@Variant(\0\0\0\b\0\0\0\x2\0\0\0 \0\x43\0o\0r\0\x65\0S\0t\0\x61\0t\0\x65\0V\0\x65\0r\0s\0i\0o\0n\0\0\0\x2\0\0\0\x1\0\0\0\x1c\0\x41\0\x63\0t\0i\0v\0\x65\0S\0\x65\0s\0s\0i\0o\0n\0s\0\0\0\t\0\0\0\x1\0\0\0\x7f\0\0\0\aUserId\0\0\0\0\x1)
StorageSettings=@Variant(\0\0\0\b\0\0\0\x1\0\0\0\xe\0\x42\0\x61\0\x63\0k\0\x65\0n\0\x64\0\0\0\n\0\0\0\f\0S\0Q\0L\0i\0t\0\x65)

To the much more human-friendly output of:

[Config]
Version=1

[Core]
CoreState={}
StorageSettings={'Backend': 'SQLite'}

pip install quasselconf