Feature idea: `xfconf-profile export`

[ledif]

xfconf-profile export profile.json could create a shell script containing xfconf-query commands to replicate the profile. This could be useful to send a simple shell script that an Xfce user that does not have xfconf-profile installed can use.

This would also provide a interoperability for those already using jamescherti/watch-xfce-xfconf.

Full round trip testing would look something like:

Script to profile

Consider a script called profile-export.sh containing xfconf-query --set commands.

1. Run xfconf-profile record in one shell
2. Open another shell and run ./profile-export.sh.
3. In the original shell running xfconf-profile record, hit Ctrl-C. This will dump a JSON profile both to the screen and to the current directory called recorded-profile.json.

Profile to script

You would be able to directly using the export command:

xfconf-profile export profile.json > profile-export.sh

[danielmota]

Why don't uses Panel Profiles?
https://docs.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-panel-profiles/start