[Eric] Where in the disk is Eric Sanconfig?

[Nicola Larosa]

Where's the eric4 config file?

I just upgraded to Ubuntu Hardy, and hence from eric3 to eric4 (4.1.1),
and wanted to reuse my finely honed eric3 config file, without having to
painstakingly re-set all styles and stuff in the dialog.

I looked in ~/.eric4 , ~/.qt , in the Ubuntu package. I searched the
wiki, the ML archive, and the Google: nothing.

lsof did not help either, nor did perusing the code.

(By the way, an architectural intro to the code structure would be
useful. Is there anything of the sort around?)

I finally launched eric under strace and boy, is there a lot going on.
There's a vicious cycle going all the time, while the program is not
doing anything.

Anyway, after quitting the program, I scrolled back and found out: it's
in ~/.config/Eric4 .

What's this ~/.config thing anyway? There are about ten entries there,
mostly XFCE stuff, and gtkfilechooser. eric is indeed using the ~/.eric4
folder too.

Oh, look, an eric4_error.log file, here it is:

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2008-05-26, 20:03:10
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<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>:
'NoneType' object has no attribute 'layoutDisplay'
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  File "/usr/share/eric/modules/Project/ProjectBrowser.py", line 232, in
__currentChanged
    browser.layoutDisplay()

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Version Numbers:
  Python 2.5.2
  Qt 4.4.0
  PyQt4 4.3.3
  sip 4.7.3
  QScintilla 2-snapshot-20070923
  eric4 4.1.1 (r1972)


Well, it's good being back; I stopped following the PyQt ML years ago.
Sorry for the stream-of-consciousness style post. :-)

-- 
Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/

/Multitasking/, a definition: "The attempt by human beings to operate
like computers, often done with the assistance of computers." Productive?
Efficient? More like running up and down a beach repairing a row of sand
castles as the tide comes rolling in and the rain comes pouring down.
 - Walter Kirn, November 2007