BruebachL 3aba1ef929 [Settings] Back up the settings folder before migrating (#7386)
* [Settings] Back up the settings folder before migrating

The per-file settings migration only preserved global.ini, as
global.ini.old. Everything else the migrations write was overwritten in
place with no way back: the legacy migration and the 17 per-domain
migrateXxxSettings functions all write straight into the per-domain .ini
files, so any of them that got a key mapping wrong silently replaced a
working file. The re-migration path is the sharpest case, because
migrateSettingsFromGlobalIni() runs again whenever an older build wrote
non-sentinel keys back into global.ini, and those values then land on
top of per-domain files the user had already edited.

Snapshot the whole settings folder before either migration runs, into a
timestamped sibling settings-backup-<yyyyMMdd-HHmmss>. A sibling rather
than a child, so a backup is never copied into the next backup and the
"Open Settings Folder" action keeps showing only live files. Keep every
snapshot; settings files are kilobytes, so growth is not a concern.

SettingsMigration::isMigrationPending() gates the copy so a normal start
creates nothing. It reuses the same condition migrateSettingsFromGlobalIni()
uses to decide whether it has work, factored into a shared helper so the
two cannot drift, and it ignores the legacy migration on an empty profile
where that migration only writes its sentinel. The backup itself skips a
folder whose files are all empty, which covers a fresh profile whose
global.ini was created but never written.

A failed copy logs a warning and returns an empty path rather than
aborting the migration, since a full disk or an unwritable data folder
must not leave the client unable to start. global.ini.old still works as
the single-file escape hatch.

Document the folder layout, the automatic backups, and the fact that
migrations only run forwards, so users know to copy the settings folder
before downgrading to a version that cannot read the per-group files.

* [Client] Match the desktop file name case for the portal app ID

QGuiApplication::setDesktopFileName() was given "Cockatrice"/"Oracle"
while the installed desktop entries are cockatrice.desktop and
oracle.desktop. Linux paths are case-sensitive, so xdg-desktop-portal
failed the app-info lookup for "Cockatrice" and Qt warned on every
QDesktopServices call that it could not register with the host portal.
The same string becomes the xdg-shell appId, so the window icon lookup
failed on Wayland for the same reason.

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Co-authored-by: Lukas Brübach <Bruebach.Lukas@bdosecurity.de>
2026-10-03 14:59:58 +02:00
2026-10-02 03:41:29 +02:00
2026-09-06 22:18:36 +02:00


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