Use →File→Settings to access the cookiedough options menu.

• Options are grouped by modules there.
• Some may only take effect after a restart (e.g. hook_prompt).
• Stored in ~/.config/cookiedough/settings.json.
• There is no plugin handling in CD, so ticking the modules has no effect.

Options

name	description
colorize	Colorize the readme preview a bit
sort	Primary scoring/sorting property
show_counts	Show number of entries per language/api category
editor	Text editor (only used for cookiecutters config editing)
no_params	Don't prompt for template vars. Use terminal prompts instead.
update_ccjson	Update parameters from cookiecutter.json files
hook_prompt	Display any additional prompts as GUI inputs

Sort

Influences how templates are listed in the left pane. Normally they're ordered by "all" (a virtual score). But there's more fields internally:

name	avg/weight	description
all	= 5.0	cumulative weighted score
size	64	overall size of repository (in kb)
stars	20	project watchers/stars
forks	5	number of github forks
tickets	10	number of open tickets in repo
vars	7	number of templating variables
files	32	number of files in template
readme	2048	length of README
lang	-0.9	non-english text
age	9 months	age of last release
bonus	+2.5	tree listing, keywords, curated, descriptions
curated	+0.8	previously listed in CC README
keywords	+0.5	has a _keywords field
descriptions	+1.25	contains field descriptions in README
score.find	+0.5*len	additional content/filenames to reward

Note that alphabetically sorting works best with the "short" project name, while the "name" represents the vnd/pkg title, so won't look very sorted in the tree list. Take note of →Template→Details to see how the scoring works on each entry (usually at the bottom).

Not all fields are selectable in the config window. (Though you could edit the ~/.config/cookiedough/settings.json)

no_params / hook_prompt

Enabling no_params will avoid the input window when rolling out a teplate.

If disabled, hook_prompt will keep input fields pop up as GUI windows. Else you would get CLI prompts from cookiecutter directly.