[scribus] Preferences for Scribus versions

[Gregory Pittman]

On 5/20/21 6:40 AM, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
> Just downloaded the 1.5.7 appimage to give it a try. My distro (Ubuntu 18) has 1.4.6 as a standard.
> 
> The appimage version seems to consider the locale, and offers A4 paper and mm as a default. Now, when I close the appimage, where does it store the preferences if I changed any? Will it overwrite those for 1.4.6 and will 1.4.6 understand?
> 

Hi Rolf,

As it turns out, the Preferences for 1.4.x are in a different file from 1.5.x, so you can have differences for each version type.

In my Fedora, prefs140.xml is in ~/.scribus, prefs150.xml is in ~/.config/scribus/

Greg