Topic: Can i define location of custom element collection?
By command line or config file?
(makes syncing and multiboot easier)
- scorpio810
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Re: Can i define location of custom element collection?
See --config-dir argument !
https://qelectrotech.org/wiki_new/doc/o … ements-dir
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Re: Can i define location of custom element collection?
Example :
laurent@debian:~$ mkdir Qtest
laurent@debian:~$ qelectrotech --config-dir=/home/laurent/Qtest
laurent@debian:~$ ls -al Qtest/
total 56
drwxr-xr-x 4 laurent laurent 4096 févr. 6 20:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 129 laurent laurent 20480 févr. 6 20:24 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 laurent laurent 4096 févr. 6 20:24 elements
-rw-r--r-- 1 laurent laurent 20480 févr. 6 20:24 elements_cache.sqlite
drwxr-xr-x 2 laurent laurent 4096 févr. 6 20:24 titleblocks
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Re: Can i define location of custom element collection?
Ah great, and thanks for the quick reply 
Suggestion:
When issuing (like I did)
$ qelectrotech --helpit explain that option like:
--config-dir=DIR Definir le dossier de configurationI dont know much french, but to me it looks like it say "Define configuration folder"
But QET still store configuration in ~.config/QElectroTech/QElectroTech.conf !
Instead it works like you say So please update the --help to reflect reality 
- that it defines the base dir of custom elements and title blocks
OR if you like, make that option really point to the configuration file, and make a new option
--custom-dir=DIR base folder of custom elements and title blocks
OR... was it meant that configuration file should be stored on the base folder of custom elements and title blocks?
(would also be nice if output in english if system language is not french, but most users guess the meaning anyway )
- scorpio810
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Re: Can i define location of custom element collection?
BTW, You could open English man in sources files
[10:35:27] laurent@debian:~$ cat ~/Qet-svn/qet_directory/man/files/man1/qelectrotech.1
.TH QELECTROTECH 1 "AUGUST 2008" QElectroTech "User Manual"
.SH NAME
qelectrotech \- Electric diagrams editor
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B qelectrotech
.B [\-\-common\-elements\-dir\fR=\fIDIR\fB]
.B [\-\-config\-dir\fR=\fIDIR\fB]
.B [\-\-lang\-dir\fR=\fIDIR\fB]
.B [\-\-help]
.B [\-v\fR|\fB\-\-version]
.B [\-\-license]
.B [\fIFILE\fB]....SH DESCRIPTION
QElectroTech is an electric diagrams editor. Diagrams (*.qet) and electric elements (*.elmt) are stored using the XML format.
The elements that can be used in diagrams may come from the common collection or from the user's custom collection.
Typically, the common collection is readable by all users but it can't be edited by them.
Each user owns its custom collection he can modify as he wants.
.SH OPTIONS
.TPetc..
Available man files:
~/Qet-svn/qet_directory/man/files$ ls
be cs el es fr fr.ISO8859-1 fr.UTF-8 it man1 nl pl pt ru
[font=monospace][10:40:00] laurent@debian:~/Qet-svn/qet_directory/man/files$ tree[/font]
[font=monospace].
├── be
│ └── man1
│ └── qelectrotech.1
├── cs
│ └── man1
│ └── qelectrotech.1
├── el
│ └── man1
│ └── qelectrotech.1
├── es
│ └── man1
│ └── qelectrotech.1
├── fr
│ └── man1
│ └── qelectrotech.1
├── fr.ISO8859-1
│ └── man1
│ └── qelectrotech.1
├── fr.UTF-8
│ └── man1
│ └── qelectrotech.1
├── it
│ └── man1
│ └── qelectrotech.1
├── man1
│ └── qelectrotech.1
├── nl
│ └── man1
│ └── qelectrotech.1
├── pl
│ └── man1
│ └── qelectrotech.1
├── pt
│ └── man1
│ └── qelectrotech.1
└── ru
└── man1
└── qelectrotech.1[/font][font=monospace]25 directories, 13 files[/font]
Yes I know, these man files need to be corrected, because we added Qt QSettings in 0.5 version
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qsettings.html#pl … ific-notes
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