Question

When I start the gui with gradle --gui, I can export and import my settings on the Favorites tab. It will be written to a *.favorite-tasks in the selected folder, but it won’t be loaded next time I start the gui. The userguide says “It is preferable to run this command from your gradle project directory so that the settings of the UI will be stored in your project directory”, but I can’t see any new file created. I checked the ~/.gradle and <project>/.gradle directories. So where is this settings file located by default? Shall I add an entry to my settings.gradle file?

Answer 1

With Gradle 1.1 it works just fine. It creates gradle-app.setting file in the project’s folder after running gradle --gui. May be you have permission problems?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<root> 
  <setting name="task-tab"> 
    <setting name="show-description" value="true"/> 
  </setting>  
  <setting name="favorites-tab"> 
    <setting name="favorites"> 
      <setting name="favorite"> 
        <setting name="full-command-line" value="clean build"/>  
        <setting name="display-name" value="clean build"/>  
        <setting name="show-output" value="false"/> 
      </setting>  
      <setting name="favorite"> 
        <setting name="full-command-line" value="generate"/>  
        <setting name="display-name" value="generate"/>  
        <setting name="show-output" value="true"/> 
      </setting> 
    </setting> 
  </setting>  
  <setting name="command_line-tab"/>  
  <setting name="setup-tab"> 
    <setting name="setup"> 
      <setting name="custom-gradle-executor"/>  
      <setting name="current-directory" value="...."/>  
      <setting name="log-level" value="LIFECYCLE"/> 
    </setting> 
  </setting>  
  <setting name="Application_window-id"> 
    <setting name="window_x" value="60"/>  
    <setting name="window_y" value="60"/>  
    <setting name="window_width" value="780"/>  
    <setting name="window_height" value="800"/>  
    <setting name="extended-state" value="0"/> 
  </setting>  
  <setting name="main_panel"> 
    <setting name="current-tab" value="Task Tree"/> 
  </setting> 
</root>