Add saving and loading the configuration to a file (discussion #610)

Revives #640, closed only to clear a review backlog. Two entries in
the Configuration menu: "Enregistrer la configuration sous..." saves
the settings to a .conf file, "Charger une configuration..." replaces
them with one. The file is always ini format, so a profile made on one
platform loads on the others.

Changes from #640:
- Window sizes, positions and dock layouts (".../geometry",
  ".../state") and the recent-files lists stay out of a profile and
  are kept on load: they describe this computer, not a preference.
- A saved file carries a format marker; loading refuses files that
  QElectroTech did not save.
- Loading closes QElectroTech and asks the user to start it again,
  instead of starting a second copy: a second copy started while this
  one is still running hands its arguments over and exits (main.cpp).
- The colour dialog's custom colours are reloaded from the profile
  before quitting, since ~QETApp() saves them over the loaded ones.
- Both actions are registered with ShortcutManager, so they appear in
  command search and can be given a shortcut.
- The copy rules live in the header-only utils/configprofile.h and
  are unit tested (tst_configprofile).

Loading still replaces rather than merges: a setting the profile does
not have is removed, or switching profiles would keep settings from the
previous one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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#include "qetpalette.h"
#include "qetstyle.h"
#include "utils/qetutils.h"
#include "utils/configprofile.h"
#include "qetmessagebox.h"
#include "qetproject.h"
#include "qtextorientationspinboxwidget.h"
@@ -55,9 +56,11 @@
#include <iostream>
#define QUOTE(x) STRINGIFY(x)
#define STRINGIFY(x) #x
#include <QFileDialog>
#include <QFontDatabase>
#include <QProcessEnvironment>
#include <QRegularExpression>
#include <QSettings>
#include <QStyleFactory>
#include <QStyleHints>
#ifdef BUILD_WITHOUT_KF
@@ -2242,6 +2245,109 @@ void QETApp::configureQET()
#endif
}
/**
@brief QETApp::exportConfiguration
Save the settings of QElectroTech to a file the user chooses, to keep
them as a named profile or copy them to another computer (discussion
#610). The file is always written in the ini format, whatever the
platform stores its live settings in, so a profile saved on Windows
loads on Linux and macOS. See ConfigProfile for the keys left out.
*/
void QETApp::exportConfiguration()
{
QWidget *parent_widget = qApp->activeWindow();
QString path = QFileDialog::getSaveFileName(
parent_widget,
tr("Enregistrer la configuration sous...", "dialog title"),
QString(),
tr("Configurations QElectroTech (*.conf)", "file dialog filter"));
if (path.isEmpty()) {
return;
}
if (!path.endsWith(QLatin1String(".conf"), Qt::CaseInsensitive)) {
path += QLatin1String(".conf");
}
QSettings live_settings;
QSettings file_settings(path, QSettings::IniFormat);
ConfigProfile::exportTo(live_settings, file_settings);
if (file_settings.status() != QSettings::NoError) {
QET::QetMessageBox::critical(
parent_widget,
tr("Erreur", "message box title"),
tr("Impossible d'enregistrer la configuration dans « %1 ».").arg(path));
}
}
/**
@brief QETApp::importConfiguration
Replace the settings of QElectroTech with a file saved by
exportConfiguration(), then close QElectroTech.
The settings are read by each part of QElectroTech when it starts, and
there is no signal telling all of them that a setting changed, so the
new settings are applied by starting QElectroTech again. That restart
is left to the user: a second copy started from here would find this
one still running, hand its arguments over to it and exit (main.cpp).
*/
void QETApp::importConfiguration()
{
QWidget *parent_widget = qApp->activeWindow();
const QString path = QFileDialog::getOpenFileName(
parent_widget,
tr("Charger une configuration...", "dialog title"),
QString(),
tr("Configurations QElectroTech (*.conf)", "file dialog filter"));
if (path.isEmpty()) {
return;
}
QSettings file_settings(path, QSettings::IniFormat);
if (file_settings.status() != QSettings::NoError
|| !ConfigProfile::isProfile(file_settings))
{
QET::QetMessageBox::critical(
parent_widget,
tr("Erreur", "message box title"),
tr("« %1 » n'est pas une configuration enregistrée par QElectroTech.").arg(path));
return;
}
//Said before anything closes: once the last window is closed,
//QElectroTech quits by itself (checkRemainingWindows()).
const auto answer = QET::QetMessageBox::question(
parent_widget,
tr("Charger une configuration", "message box title"),
tr("Cette configuration va remplacer vos réglages actuels, sauf la "
"disposition des fenêtres et la liste des fichiers récents.\n\n"
"QElectroTech va ensuite se fermer. Relancez-le pour utiliser "
"la nouvelle configuration.\n\n"
"Voulez-vous continuer ?"),
QMessageBox::Yes | QMessageBox::No,
QMessageBox::No);
if (answer != QMessageBox::Yes) {
return;
}
//Asks to save any modified project, as quitQET() does. The settings
//are only replaced once every editor is closed, so that the editors
//saving their own settings on close cannot overwrite them, and a
//cancelled close leaves them untouched.
if (!closeEveryEditor()) {
return;
}
QSettings live_settings;
ConfigProfile::importFrom(file_settings, live_settings);
//~QETApp() saves the colour dialog's custom colours on exit: load
//the profile's into it first, or the old ones overwrite them
QET::loadCustomColors();
qApp->quit();
}
/**
@brief QETApp::aboutQET
Open the dialog about qet.