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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: 3.4's defaults
From:       Jakob Petsovits <jpetso () gmx ! at>
Date:       2005-04-28 14:50:42
Message-ID: 200504281650.43469.jpetso () gmx ! at
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On Thursday 28 April 2005 15:03, David Faure wrote:
> On Thursday 28 April 2005 14:54, Jakob Petsovits wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I see a contradiction. If the GUI does it, the file-system layout doesn't
> matter.

People who want to reset a good amount of configuration data, like when 
updating from 3.3 to 3.4, currently have a number of possibilities (assuming 
the application doesn't support that by itself, which mostly is the case):

1. Do it by manually setting the options in the application. This is not what 
I consider a clean reset, and you have to know what the default values are at 
all.

2. Delete passages from the config files in config/. This is tedious work and 
error-prone, you can easily delete passages that are needed in the end, or 
leave them out, which is also not so cool.

3. Delete whole files or the config/ directory. That way, you can be sure that 
nothing is done wrong because it's restored anyway, but you have to start 
from scratch configuring the app(s).

What I want from such a "reset to default" functionality is to have an easy, 
GUI way to do 2., to prevent users from doing 3. because it's easier.

For example, you could split up configuration in KMail in UI configuration, 
account configuration and option configuration, so that UI and options can be 
reset independently from the email accounts. If some user wants to reset the 
options to their default values, he will not delete the kmailrc file (along 
with all the other configuration), but he'll do it with the GUI.

So, of course you're right. The GUI has to do it in order to make
the file system unimportant.

Bye,
  Jakob
 
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