Re: [Bug-gnubg] Auto Save Settings - your opinion?

[Jim Segrave]

On Sun 06 Mar 2011 (19:22 -0700), Michael Petch wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> After spending some time on many platforms this week I will admit I am not 
> a fan of the auto save settings. There are still some bugs (Switching 
> between 3d and 2d, the view/panels view/tool bar settings) don't auto save. 
> Some settings save twice (not a big deal in most cases), but one big one is 
> that if I resize windows and move thing around I have to go out of my way 
> to find an option that does save so that I can get window/panel size/pos 
> changes to. Sometimes I even forget and find the layout changed the next 
> time I return.
>
> I understand why Save Settings  was removed - I have seen some of the 
> complaints. The advantage the old way was that I had control over when 
> things saved and there was no guessing. I could go an entire session with 
> changes made and then undo it all just by exiting.
>
> I was thinking of fixing the things that were not auto saving but got to 
> feeling - I'd personally fix it by reverting it all back ;-) .
>
> I'm just not sure that the way we have implemented is better than what it 
> was before. I am curious about other people's opinion on this. I figure I 
> am in the minority on my feelings about this.

Suppose there were a setting "auto-save-settings" which defaults to
on. But if you set it off, then the "save settings" button appears (or
is made clickable. If the auto-save-settings choice is saved, then
people who only want to have them saved when they want it get that,
people who keep forgetting to save settings simply leave it defaulted
on and they are protecte from forgetting.



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Jim Segrave           address@hidden