Cloud sync all budgie-settings / backup & restore

fossfreedom · June 12, 2021, 9:19am

Latest state of play is described in this issue

Dynamic package check and restores

opened 11:30AM - 18 Nov 19 UTC

Good start! Some thoughts. At the moment the restore of deb packages is hard…-coded. This will involve manual changes and testing for each new release. This isn't an overhead that in the long-term is workable. Suggestion for investigation Welcome specifies theme names together with their ppa and package names. https://github.com/UbuntuBudgie/budgie-welcome/blob/master/data/config/packages.json - any key with "-theme" is a theme potentially that can be installed, - "packages" are deb package names that are installed when that makeover is applied, - "repos" has a key as to what package (and or PPA name) where that package can be installed 1a. Need to either investigate reading json files in a bash script - or 1b. use a python based script that reads that json and returns a value found (https://stackoverflow.com/a/8400375) 2. On backup look at every "-theme" to see if the package/packages from "packages" is installed - if yes save that "-theme" name 3. On restore look if there is a "-theme" name from the backup. See if there is a corresponding "repos" for the lsb_release value. If yes, then install (add the ppa if appropriate) the packages found in the "packages"

Basically some more tweaks and tucks are needed … all offers of help to progress are most welcome.

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Cloud sync all budgie-settings / backup & restore

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