GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 585800
Setting the profile directory
Last modified: 2009-06-15 14:26:05 UTC
This request is simply to allow the user the ability to specify which folder they want their Tomboy profile/notes kept in. That way the data could be kept safe in case of reinstalls, or accessed easily by another computer on a network. Maybe there would be two options: Save to default profile; and Save to User Defined Folder (which would have an field specifying the folder to use).
(In reply to comment #0) > This request is simply to allow the user the ability to specify which folder > they want their Tomboy profile/notes kept in. You can *kind* of do this by setting the TOMBOY_PATH environment variable, but it is kind of messy right now and I wouldn't recommend it. This will be fixed as part of bug #518585, but it will be the sort of thing you change by setting XDG* environment variables, not through any sort of GUI. I consider this an advanced user feature. > That way the data could be kept > safe in case of reinstalls, or accessed easily by another computer on a > network. Having two Tomboy installs simultaneously accessing the same note directory could conceivably cause issues. Enabling the NoteDirectoryWatcher add-in that is available in 0.15.x might be sufficient to overcome any issues. Would require testing. > Maybe there would be two options: Save to default profile; and Save to User > Defined Folder (which would have an field specifying the folder to use). I don't see us doing this. Tomboy doesn't even have a "save" button anywhere. I feel like adding this would add clutter to the UI, and since I imagine it would not be frequently used, it would not be well-tested or well-maintained. I don't want to introduce any features that are likely to break in a year from having no attention paid to them. I'm going to mark this as a duplicate of bug #518585, since you will be able to achieve your goal by setting XDG* environment variables once it is fixed. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 518585 ***