[GNC] Switching to/from Flatpak keeping Saved Reports

[Jon Schewe]

Tommy,
Thank you for the tip about the symlink, I'll need to do that.
Here's the menu entry file that I have in
~/.local/share/applications/personal-gnucash.desktop. I have similar
desktop entry for each gnucash file. This allows me to press the
"windows" key, then type "personal gnucash" and I get the icon and the
right file is launched.
[Desktop Entry]Version=1.0Name=Personal GnuCashExec=flatpak run
org.gnucash.GnuCash
"/home/jpschewe/Documents/banking/gnucash/accounts.gnucash"Icon=/usr/sh
are/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/gnucash-
icon.pngTerminal=falseType=Application
On Sun, 2020-11-08 at 18:17 -0600, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> A couple of months ago I upgraded GnuCash 3.8 on my Ubuntu LTS system
> tothe latest GnuCash using Flatpak. I wanted to keep my saved reports
> and Ididn't want to have to worry about losing them again if I
> switched fromFlatpak to a distribution version. Here's what I did to
> keep them (\ lineendings and whitespace added for clarity):
>   # Close all running instances of GnuCash  # Save any existing
> Flatpak report configurations  mv
> \     ~/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash
> \     ~/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash.orig  # Create the
> symlink  ln -s \     ~/.local/share/gnucash
> \     ~/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash
> The paths above seem to be correct for any Debian derived
> distribution, andI believe may be the same for any linux
> distribution. (I hope someonecorrects me if I'm wrong.)
> BACKGROUND:
> I was putting off upgrading via Flatpak for a long time for two
> reasons:
> 1) My primary system running GnuCash didn't quite have the memory
> orprocessor capacity to handle Flatpak applications. (It's impressive
> howlittle RAM or CPU you need to run GnuCash. Or maybe it's
> impressive howmuch of a cheapskate I am. Your pick.)
> 2) I have books for eight organizations at this point and I would
> hate tolose my custom reports and launcher shortcuts.
> I upgraded the primary system earlier this year, so that addressed
> itemone. Item two took a little digging amongst the FAQ entries.
> I created a symlink as shown above and the saved reports have been
> workingperfectly. I expected to have "sandbox" permission issues with
> the Flatpakbut didn't. So why does the Flatpak have to use its own
> directory insteadof looking in the same place the distribution
> version uses...?)
> I'm still not completely happy with my Gnome launcher shortcuts --
> I'm ableto get the right-click launcher menu to open my different
> GnuCash books,but they do NOT share the "favorite" GnuCash icon in
> the task bar as thedistribution application does. I figure I'm either
> missing some Gnomelauncher secret sauce, or maybe Gnome doesn't know
> how to handle
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