KiCad / Dropbox Tutorial

Don’t think so..

Look and feel is being determined in C:\Users???\AppData\Roaming\kicad under Windows.
Each module has got it’s setting file in there.
Dunno where that is in the 'nix world..

The there are project level settings which are stored in the .pro file that resides in the folder where your project is in. Don’t mix projects, make a folder per project.

If you use local/custom repos for symbols/footprints/shapes you have to tell KiCAD where to find them.
Footprint and shape folders are being set in the project module>preferences.
Symbol folder is being set in the symbol editor module directly for the time being.

There was a bloke on here who posted some file locations for all OS’es and that they should be similar.. couple of weeks back.. ah here we go, 5th search phrase was a success: