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Multiple instances with different synchronization settings #38

Open HighCommander4 opened 7 years ago

HighCommander4 commented 7 years ago

I would like to use Tomboy for two different sets of notes.

The two sets of notes should be stored in different places on the hard drive (one inside an encrypted volume, one not), and they should have different synchronization settings (one set of notes should be mirrored to another computer, another should not).

I've figured out how to do the first one: pass a --note-path command-line argument to the application to get it to read notes from a user-specified directory, instead of the default ~/.local/share/tomboy.

Is there a way to also get it to read configuration info (including synchronization) from a user-specified directory, instead of the default ~/.gconf/apps/tomboy? If not, could this be added?

alex-ter commented 7 years ago

There's no easy way to accomplish that and given the basic architectural assumptions I see in Tomboy, it won't be an easy thing to implement, as the config backend is singular. And the use case is imho a bit on a rare side, so I'll leave it opened in case someone wants to give it a look, but I personally don't plan to do it any time soon.