From 529ad588c60df712bb510b162eb82beb9301b1a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lemmy <studio@quadbyte.net>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2026 10:51:26 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix(settings): dont rely on Qt.btoa to generate default
 settings dump.

---
 Assets/settings-default.json         | 2 +-
 Assets/settings-widgets-default.json | 2 +-
 Commons/Settings.qml                 | 7 ++-----
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Assets/settings-default.json b/Assets/settings-default.json
index 213f2fd16..262d6a760 100644
--- a/Assets/settings-default.json
+++ b/Assets/settings-default.json
@@ -560,4 +560,4 @@
     "gridSnapScale": false,
     "monitorWidgets": []
   }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/Assets/settings-widgets-default.json b/Assets/settings-widgets-default.json
index 9503ed6cc..df518b5e5 100644
--- a/Assets/settings-widgets-default.json
+++ b/Assets/settings-widgets-default.json
@@ -292,4 +292,4 @@
       "colorName": "primary"
     }
   }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/Commons/Settings.qml b/Commons/Settings.qml
index eb5b3159d..da1a4fb92 100644
--- a/Commons/Settings.qml
+++ b/Commons/Settings.qml
@@ -1068,9 +1068,7 @@ Singleton {
 
       var defaultPath = Quickshell.shellDir + "/Assets/settings-default.json";
 
-      // Encode transfer it has base64 to avoid any escaping issue
-      var base64Data = Qt.btoa(jsonData);
-      Quickshell.execDetached(["sh", "-c", `echo "${base64Data}" | base64 -d > "${defaultPath}"`]);
+      Quickshell.execDetached(["sh", "-c", `cat > "${defaultPath}" << 'NOCTALIA_EOF'\n${jsonData}\nNOCTALIA_EOF`]);
     } catch (error) {
       Logger.e("Settings", "Failed to generate default settings file: " + error);
     }
@@ -1091,8 +1089,7 @@ Singleton {
 
       var defaultPath = Quickshell.shellDir + "/Assets/settings-widgets-default.json";
 
-      var base64Data = Qt.btoa(jsonData);
-      Quickshell.execDetached(["sh", "-c", `echo "${base64Data}" | base64 -d > "${defaultPath}"`]);
+      Quickshell.execDetached(["sh", "-c", `cat > "${defaultPath}" << 'NOCTALIA_EOF'\n${jsonData}\nNOCTALIA_EOF`]);
     } catch (error) {
       Logger.e("Settings", "Failed to generate widget default settings file: " + error);
     }