Comment 12 for bug 357091

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Luca Invernizzi <email address hidden> wrote:
> Export is for easily backup and move tasks to new installations

IMHO this problem is created by you, original GTG developers :-)
DB file (tasks file) is hidden somewhere in dot directories. There are
a lot of files there, so it is not clear to ordinary user what to
backup/move.

And now we are thinking about fix for problem that is introduced by ourself.

If we add export, it will involve adding:
- New file format (it can be XML, but not the XML that is used in tags file)
- New GUI window
- New code that connects these and new bugs connected with this code
and more time will be needed to support these things.

Too much complexity.

Instead we can ask user where to keep database. User will know where
his database is and what to backup.
Or we can copy existing database file unchanged when user click
"Export..." and ask him where to save it.

We could export database to some other format. But, again, AFAIK there
is no widespread recognized task file format.

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