Preference manager

[Victor-IX]

Preference Management

Swap Blender Preferences when launching Blender to use a specific Preference preset

Main use case

If you develop add-ons you can swap to your development environment, you can easily launch Blender with default factory settings to do testing...

Functionality List

• Launch Blender with Dynamic Environment Variable to use a specific preference folder
• Launch Blender with Default preference (%appdata%)
• Option to set static Environment Variable to use a specific preference folder when launching Blender outside BL
• Option to replace the Default preference folder with a custom preference preset (saved in the BL lib)
• Manage the saved preference preset (ability to create new ones, rename them...) --> this will be done in the preferences tab

Folder structure

📦config
┗ 📂4.2
┃ ┣ 📂Main
┃ ┃ ┣ 📂config
┃ ┃ ┣ 📂extensions
┃ ┃ ┗ 📂scripts
┃ ┗ 📂New
┃ ┃ ┣ 📂config
┃ ┃ ┣ 📂extensions
┃ ┃ ┗ 📂scripts

UI Example

2024-05-28.22-10-24.mp4

[zeptofine]

As I mentioned in the original issue, Blender can use three different paths to specify aspects of the user configuration:

• CONFIG (userpref),
• SCRIPTS (addons)
• DATAFILES (icons, translations, ...) (I'm not sure if we need this one but it would be good to have, if all three are handled similarly)

Do we want all of these to be bundled into one single set of preferences, or should they be individually assigned?

[Victor-IX]

Yes, we would need at least CONFIG and SCRIPTS in the same bundle because there are links. User prefs hold the addon settings

[zeptofine]

ok, that makes sense

[zeptofine]

What would be useful information to have in a ConfigInfo? Currently there is a directory, target_version, and name