[Bug 302927] New: wish: systemsettings log changes (for use in scripts)

[Richard Neill]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302927

            Bug ID: 302927
          Severity: wishlist
           Version: 4.8.80
          Priority: NOR
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
           Summary: wish: systemsettings log changes (for use in scripts)
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: Linux
          Reporter: kde at richardneill.org
          Hardware: Ubuntu Packages
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
         Component: general
           Product: systemsettings

When configuring KDE systems, there are a *lot* of changes that can be made. It
would be really helpful to be able to re-apply them selectively across multiple
systems, 

To this end, I'd like to be able to invoke systemsettings  with "--print-cmd"  
or similar, so that for every 
change that it makes to the underlying files, it prints out a line like this:
   kwriteconfig --file XXX --group YYY --key AAA  BBB
  (ideally prefixed with a comment of the module name and control name)

Then I would go through the settings GUI, spend 3 hours setting it up to taste,
and have a helpful list of commands waiting so that the next time I set up a
new KDE installation, I could just replay the ones I want.

I've used a similar process under gnome (with gconftool) to deploy multiple
similar configurations.

[It would also be useful (though perhaps harder) to support a --export mode,
which would export a list of all the settings that differ from their default
values]

Reproducible: Always

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