Save, Import, Export needs clarification

[auipga]

• Save
  • what does it save to? I guess the current settings to the current profile. (could not verify)
• Export
  • does it export my current settings, the selected profile or everything?
• Import
  • seems to append.
  • I ended up with
    • Default
    • Default_1
    • Default_1_1
    • Default_1_1_1
    • Default_1_1_1_1
    • ...
    • but non of them seems to load my settings (everything is default, custom Application Profiles missing, ...)

Nevertheless profiles need the ability to be renamed to make use of Save/Export/Import.

Sorry for mixing up questions with problems.

[Selenium-H]

Thanks for the detailed description. Yes, this part needs more work. The current implementation is not very intuitive. I'll update once it's done.

For the time being this is how everything works -

Save

* what does it save to? I guess the current settings to the current profile. (could not verify)

It saves extension preferences (everything in Action tab, everything in Profiles -> Application Profiles and everything in Tweaks tab except Shortcut key combination to disable extension ) in selected profile by overriding the selected profile in animationTweaksExtensionProfiles.js file in ~/.config/gnome-shell-extension-animation-tweaks@Selenium-H folder.

• Export

  • does it export my current settings, the selected profile or everything?

Yes, It exports everything and all profiles (provided the current settings are saved by clicking the Save button). If any changes are done to a particular profile and not saved, they are not exported.

Import

* seems to append.

* I ended up with
  
  * Default
  * Default_1
  * Default_1_1
  * Default_1_1_1
  * Default_1_1_1_1
  * ...
  * but non of them seems to load my settings (everything is default, custom Application Profiles missing, ...)

It imports any older profiles exported via the Export option. Currently, naming logic is bad. It just appends _1 if it finds duplicate profile names. ( I'll try to implement profile naming options to eliminate this). However, if the settings were saved and exported, it should be able to load the previous settings.

* but non of them seems to load my settings (everything is default, custom Application Profiles missing, ...)

After making changes to the preferences, please save the settings using Save button. Then export it.

[auipga]

Thank you for the fast answers.

• Save
  got it. I can see now that the button is active only if changes are made. (Toggling only application profiles' main switch keeps the save button grey).

• Export profiles
  I wish this to be more intuitive. Suggestion: reorder the tabs (those in the window-top-bar, don't know their name)

  • Actions, Apps, Tweaks, Profiles

  In detail:

  • Actions (keep as is)
  • Profiles: rename to "Application Profiles" (better sth. shorter. "Apps" would be enough I think), remove sub-tabs.
  • Tweaks (keep as is), move disable-shortcut to preferences (which definitely sounds less related to profiles)
  • Profiles (new tab): show "Extension Profiles"

• Import profiles

  • Prefix with "Imported at yy-mm-dd hh:ii:ss " (though I really don't like such long names)
  • Naming strategy (requires more code to implement)
    • file
    • file (copy)
    • file (copy 2)
  • a different approach

Import/Export
What do you think about writing only a single profile to a file? While exporting I could change the name from "my super crazy overkill profile_1_1" to "Crazy by auipga" which is also nice for sharing purposes. When importing, the loaded file/profile suggests this value which can be accepted or changed. In this window you then could enforce unique names.