Conserve Themes folder: Updating albert will erase custom themes -> change themes location

[martinengelke]

Package source

GitHub

App logs

MacOS

Current Behavior

Update to the freshest version of Albert caused my Theme to go (obviously I was aware of that and saved the themes folder before), since the albert.app just get overwritten and the themes are stored inside the app package.

Expected Behavior

Themes should be conserved like the configuration files and stored under ~/Library/Application Support/albert instead?

Anything else?

No response

[ManuelSchneid3r]

You can put your files there. Albert will scan but not touch it. (besides the python stub file)

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Activate the datenverzeichnis item. To get there

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Wait thats not true albert does touch it a lot :D. But it will not be deleted on updates.

[martinengelke]

nested in a themes folder?

[martinengelke]

Activate the datenverzeichnis item. To get there

I like to configure albert using albert ^^

[ManuelSchneid3r]

nested in a themes folder?

The structure is the same as in the system dirs

pwd && tree -d -L2
/Users/manuel/Library/Application Support/albert
.
├── clipboard
├── docs
│   ├── docsets
│   └── icons
├── python
│   ├── plugins 
│   └── venv
├── websearch
├── websearch2
└── widgetsboxmodel
    └── themes 
12 directories

[martinengelke]

maybe you should think about put an empty folder into there for new albert users, who are opening "Dateiverzeichnis" first time and don't know about that structure. Or have an extra option under Themes like: Open Themes folder…

[ManuelSchneid3r]

I put a faq entry here.
The docs on theming are lacking i know. However I dont want to lift lots of users on themeing using qstylesheets because i have plans to change the styling anyway. but history tells that this may take much more time than i assume.