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Enable separate configuration profiles #853

Open DHammarberg opened 2 years ago

DHammarberg commented 2 years ago

One thing that was a letdown for me, after finding fman and realizing that it was quite a treat, was finding that it doesn't facilitate having different configuration profiles. I'm a heavy Total Commander user, and I've got like 7-8 different configuration profiles for different purposes (system, gaming, media, music, etc...), and I've got different pane directories, directory menus, etc., for them. This is integral for my file manager use - I just can't see myself stuffing all the stuff into one big bag.

So what I would propose is being able to specify the location of the user settings folder on the command line, like you can do in TC. On Windows, I start mine with command lines like these, stored as system shortcuts:

C:\totalcmd10\TOTALCMD.EXE -i="C:\totalcmd-profiler\wincmd_system.ini"

I know that implementing this would be trivial, and I'm sure it'd be tremendously useful to lots of people, who use file managers in similar ways. It was touched upon in #371 too, posted a few years back. I think this shouldn't require much time, rather something that one could have added from one day to the next.