Profile managment

[dolik-rce]

I have noticed that the profile names are take from two different sources:

• The settings dialog displays the profiles names based on the filename
• The title bar displays value of "Name" field in the configuration file.

There should be only one source of truth for this information.

How did I found this? I wanted to duplicate a profile, because I only needed to change the command and keep everything else same. Since the UI doesn't support that yet, I just went to the config directory and made a copy of the profile. After some time, I noticed that the title bar still shows the original name.

Also, the work with profiles could use some more features:

• duplication (to create similar profile, as it happened to me)
• rename (sometimes you need to change the name, to distinguish similar profile, or to unify the naming scheme)
• ordering (to keep related profiles near each other)

Regarding the last point: I'm not 100% sure, but I think the order sometimes randomly changes, perhaps depending in which order are the files listed on the filesystem?

I think I will have some free time next week, so I can try to actually contribute some code, if you don't mind. It'd be fun to write something in U++ after so many years of using other languages :-)

[ismail-yilmaz]

I think I will have some free time next week, so I can try to actually contribute some code, if you don't mind. It'd be fun to write something in U++ after so many years of using other languages :-)

Why of course! Please, "hop in" :).

I am planning some improvements for profile management. For one, I think it will be better if we move to a UID based approach (instead of using plain file names - that was a result of my laziness anyway) for profiles. Names should be optional and not be used as identifiers.

[ismail-yilmaz]

I am closing this issue as fixed. However, I'll open a separate issue (#27) to improve profile management further. We can discuss, prioritize and turn them to tasks there.