Syncing preferences across Macs

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FrederickYocum

I do most of my work on two Macs, a laptop and and desktop. This means working on projects in two places using the same applications.

I am new to Scribus. I would like to sync any changes I make to the Scribus UI to be reflected on both computers. Usually this accomplished by adding the preferences files to DropBox and symlinking the shared setting. I this a stupid idea with Scribus?

TIA

a.l.e

Personally, I would not sync the preferences between computers.

But I also tend not to spend too much time tweaking my UIs.
I prefer writing bug reports, even patches, and get the UI fixed : - )

This having been said, the Scribus preferences are XML files that are shareable, but I fear that they mix settings that are specific to a computer (paths, absolute coordinates for windows) and other that might shared among computer (colors, docking areas).

But it is an interesting question, and It might be a nice thing to have a command to import and export those settings and share them among users or computers.

FrederickYocum

I tend to fiddle with UI and settings. The changes I want might not be the same as someone else's. Peeking into the XML, it looks like UI settings are mixed with machine specific ones. One might be able to write an XSLT doc that would merge one settings document with another. That would be exercising skills I haven't reached for in a while!

Quote from: a.l.e on November 18, 2025, 07:34:16 PMThis having been said, the Scribus preferences are XML files that are shareable, but I fear that they mix settings that are specific to a computer (paths, absolute coordinates for windows) and other that might shared among computer (colors, docking areas).