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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: 3.4's defaults
From:       Jakob Petsovits <jpetso () gmx ! at>
Date:       2005-04-28 12:54:09
Message-ID: 200504281454.09476.jpetso () gmx ! at
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On Wednesday 27 April 2005 11:29, David Faure wrote:
> Why not just "move .kde/share/config out of the way" when you want to
> simply restart with a clean new-user config? The rest is (supposedly) user
> data.

I think the point is that there is configuration that users want to keep and 
configuration that they don't want to keep. Maybe you didn't ever delete your 
configuration, but I know that there are countless people who do so.

So, say, it's a good thing to keep configuration like email, IM or modem 
dialin accounts, but I want Konqueror to have the new Toolbar layout without 
copy/cut/paste instead of my cluttered, customized current layout.
Or I want to reset the KMenu layout (which is easy to break, as far as I'm 
concerned) to the default entries and sorting.

Would it be a good idea to integrate "restore default values" stuff into the 
application user interfaces? I think of things like a restore default button 
inside the toolbar configuration dialog, or inside the Konqueror profile 
dialog, or something defined by the application itself. I also think K3b does 
a great job in this respect.

If restoring default configuration values were accessible through the user 
interface and split up into applications and value categories instead of 
being one big config/ directory, I guess that less people would see the need 
for deleting all the configuration data.

Just my 2 cents - regards,
  Jakob
 
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