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bserv
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Shared Settings

Post by bserv »

Team,

I wanted to "hide" the SoftMaker directory by renaming it to .SoftMaker.

It would be nice if I only had to do this once...
SuperTech
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Re: Shared Settings

Post by SuperTech »

SoftMaker directory contains important settings and information required to run SoftMaker Office. So, you can't rename or move this folder, otherwise, whenever you will run SoftMaker Office, it will create it again with all fresh settings.

Thanks
Tom123
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Re: Shared Settings

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Dear SoftMaker Team,

You have done a great job creating SoftMaker 2021 for Linux. Why do you impair your own work by not adhering to the standard practices in Linux operating systems? In Linux OS the configuration (the settings) of any application program are written by default into hidden directories.

And if you are concerned that the user otherwise would not find the templates, the backup and the samples, make sure that the user can configure the storage path of these objects, while the rest of the settings are stored e.g. under "~/.SoftMaker21".

This flaw costs you one star of an otherwise excellent rating. :(

Please consider fixing this issue in an update.

Regards
Tom
SuperTech
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Re: Shared Settings

Post by SuperTech »

Thanks for your suggestion. I have forwarded this request to our product management...
lucsus
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Re: Shared Settings

Post by lucsus »

Tom123 wrote: Fri Jul 17, 2020 8:04 pm Dear SoftMaker Team,

You have done a great job creating SoftMaker 2021 for Linux. Why do you impair your own work by not adhering to the standard practices in Linux operating systems? In Linux OS the configuration (the settings) of any application program are written by default into hidden directories.

And if you are concerned that the user otherwise would not find the templates, the backup and the samples, make sure that the user can configure the storage path of these objects, while the rest of the settings are stored e.g. under "~/.SoftMaker21".

This flaw costs you one star of an otherwise excellent rating. :(

Please consider fixing this issue in an update.

Regards
Tom
I really want to reinforce this. That is an annoying and useless behavior of the software.
ricky_f
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Re: Shared Settings

Post by ricky_f »

+1 This is annoying, non-standard behaviour.
stephan1827
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Re: Shared Settings

Post by stephan1827 »

I have the same issue on a Mac. Is there any solution to this?
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