Migrating configuration and data files for sandboxed apps

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@vige

As long as you are using libsailfishapp , the values are set automatically, using the values from the .desktop files.

This is not exactly the case. If the settings backend is a custom class that declares orgname and appname the settings from desktop (or main, for that matter) won’t apply.

Settings.h, sailjail default locations

Believing the default paths to be automagcially available when declaring Sailjail org/name, I hadn’t done anything to explicitly declare them in machines vs. machines main. This seems to be in error. The machines-vs-machines-sfos.cpp includes: QObject* createSettings(QQmlEngine *engine, QJSEngine *jsEngine) { return new Settings(); } qmlRegisterSingletonType<Settings>("harbour.machines.vs.machines.sfos.Machines", 1, 0, "SettingsBackend", createSettings); The sailjail has org set (de.poeta…

It’s a bit sordid, but basically if the class delegated to handle settings for QML declares org and app in the global namespace it won’t jive with the desktop file.

To save you from navigating, if you do something init a settings class like:

#define SETTINGS(group) QSettings settings("com.github.mzanetti", "harbour-machines-vs-machines-sfos"); settings.beginGroup(group)

That corresponds with the orgname and appname in your .desktop file. It won’t work.

What does work is using the Settings init that specifies path:

#define SETTINGS(group) QSettings settings("com.github.mzanetti/harbour-machines-vs-machines-sfos/harbour-machines-vs-machines-sfos"); settings.beginGroup(group)