Feature Request: A way to export label format

[mofosyne]

Been trying to figure out a way to find the custom label format so I can add it to glabel-qt pull request.

Haven't had much luck.

Also got me thinking about the difficulties of submitting label improvements.

Maybe we should have a separate way where non technical users can submit label format suggestions

[j-evins]

I am assuming you mean product templates. The product template format is described here.
When you create a product template using the Product Template Designer wizard in qlabels-qt, the resulting template is stored at ~/.config/glabels.org/glabels-qt. If you wish to manually create them, put them in ~/.glabels.

[mofosyne]

@j-evins decided to check your suggestions, no luck... that being said making it easier for non technical users to send templates would help with expanding the label template database.

$ ls ~/.config/glabels.org/glabels-qt
ls: cannot access '/home/mofosyne/.config/glabels.org/glabels-qt': No such file or directory

$ ls ~/.glabels
ls: cannot access '/home/mofosyne/.glabels': No such file or directory

This is my dpkg package version if that would help.

$ dpkg -s glabels
Package: glabels
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: gnome
Installed-Size: 1158
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.4.1-4build3
Provides: libglabels5
Depends: glabels-data (= 3.4.1-4build3), barcode (>= 0.99), libc6 (>= 2.38), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libebook-1.2-21t64 (>= 3.17), libebook-contacts-1.2-4t64 (>= 3.16.2), libedataserver-1.2-27t64 (>= 3.17), libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0t64 (>= 2.79.0), libgtk-3-0t64 (>= 3.0.0), libiec16022-0 (>= 0.2.4), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.22.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libqrencode4 (>= 3.2.0), librsvg2-2 (>= 2.14.4), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4)
Recommends: evince | atril
Suggests: evolution-data-server
Description: label, business card and media cover creation program for GNOME
 gLabels is a lightweight program for creating labels, barcodes, business
 cards and media covers for the GNOME desktop environment. It is designed to
 work with various laser/ink-jet peel-off label and business card sheets that
 you'll find at most office supply stores.
 .
 gLabels also supports mail merge from sources such as CSV files, vCards and
 Evolution data servers.
Homepage: http://glabels.org/
Original-Maintainer: Jakob Haufe <sur5r@debian.org>

[j-evins]

I see -- you are using the old GTK version of glabels -- I do not currently work on it, and haven't worked on it in nearly 10 years. For that version, you should be able to find the template files you created using the wizard in the ~/.config/libglabels/templates/ directory.

[mofosyne]

Oh is that so? I wonder why the ubuntu package repository is so old. Maybe I should poke Ubuntu Developers ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com about this. My understanding that at least for ubuntu, that the apt repository is the official channel for glabels

[sur5r]

No reason to poke them. Given Jaye is able to work on glabels-qt again I will continue my efforts to package glabels-qt for Debian which will make it to Ubuntu automatically.

[mofosyne]

Fair enough, looking forward to the official apt package update.

That being said. Making it as easy as possible for ordinary office workers to contribute via a "send template suggestion" button would certainly be something to consider in my opinion! As long as it's not too much effort to maintain on your end.

For now, i presume the preferred method of template contributions is via a pull request to the corresponding folder.
(Edit: PR now in #211 . Thanks for the path tip of ~/.config/glabels.org/glabels-qt )