numix-folders setting changes with upgrade.

[Himanshu-Mishr]

Every time I upgrade numix icons via package manager, settings that I have set for numix-folder gets changed to its default values and colors. How to make my settings permanent ?

[andia89]

@Foggalong I thought about this, and I guess there is a way to do this:

1. Save the current configuration (colour, style, custom etc.) in a config file somewhere in ~/.config (or somewhere else) by writing it in the end of the script.
2. Add another flag to the script that reads this config file and applies these values without asking the user on the command line
3. On numix-base and circle there is somewhere a postinstall method (that's where the gtk-update-icon-cache is done). Add the numix-folder script (using for example which numix-folders) with this new flag.

All that's necessary to do this is that numix-folders is somewhere in $PATH (doesn't matter where exactly)

[dirtydancing]

While this issue is a duplicate of #45, #47 (comment), #64 and #99, we might just address this here. It is apparent that there is a demand for this kind of feature.

I am still not sure whether the method that @wa4557 proposed will work on all distros, or whether this would be specific to updating e.g. via PPA/AUR/copr. How about cloning from GitHub?

An alternative way to address this might be to still have to run the numix-folders script, but to have the script itself provide an option for the last setting, e.g. by entering "lastrun" for the style and be done.

An additional advantage of such an approach would be that Numix base and Numix-Circle stay "independent" of numix-folders in the sense that Numix base and Numix-Circle would not have to include a numix-folders postinstall.

A disadvantage of such an approach would be that the numix-folders script would have to be triggered manually every time Numix base or Numix-Circle updates e.g. via PPA, which can mean on a daily basis.

[bilelmoussaoui]

@dirtydancing @wa4557 i think the best way is to proive a GUI for numix-folders so the user can save the settings in the configuration file

[trmdi]

@bil-elmoussaoui @wa4557 @Himanshu-Mishr :
I've had a completely solution for this on my Ubuntu 15.04. You may want to have a look, at https://github.com/idmresettrial/numix-folders-autorun

[Foggalong]

The problem with that script is that it's Ubuntu dependent, so we can't implement that as the solution. As others have mentioned it might be a good idea to implement the save feature along with the GUI as both will require a bit more substance in terms of a proper install method

[trmdi]

@Foggalong
Ok, I just let them know about a solution on Ubuntu.
I still wait for an official one from Numix.
^^

[bilelmoussaoui]

I will do that using Python if everyone is ok with that. If anyone have an idea of a possible features or a design of the GUI please share it here.

Le 23 juil. 2015 à 16:10, idmresettrial notifications@github.com a écrit :

@Foggalong
Ok, I just let them know about a solution on Ubuntu.
I still wait for an official one from Numix.
^^

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[andia89]

I guess python is not really necessary here (since the whole script is written in bash), a simple zenity GUI would be sufficient. I'd do it but unfotunately I'm extremely busy at the moment :(

[bilelmoussaoui]

I have no idea how zenity woks, but i will give it a try this weekend.

Le 23 juil. 2015 à 16:28, Andreas Angerer notifications@github.com a écrit :

I guess python is not really necessary here (since the whole script is written in bash), a simple zenity GUI would be sufficient. I'd do it but unfotunately I'm extremely busy at the moment :(

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[Himanshu-Mishr]

I am not in development of this repo but I would say saving user's settings somewhere ( in ~/.config ) and using it while upgrading, would be better idea. If config file not present then you can go with default settings. Keep it simple.
Btw thank you for wonderful icons.

[Foggalong]

Yeah, decided I'm gonna keep this open. Enough people have requested it now that it's clearly something people want :P