Without having to go to a text format, it might be possible to save the user preferences structure separately from the startup file (default layout, scene content, ...), which would also solve that problem, IMHO.
Martin --- On Wed, 5/19/10, Jonathan Williamson <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Jonathan Williamson <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Settings and preferences out of blend format > To: [email protected], "bf-blender developers" > <[email protected]> > Received: Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 5:59 PM > I completely agree with Malefico on > this one. I don't know how many times I > have been working on a file and find a preference I want to > make default, > but to do so I have to load up the default file first and > THEN save my new > preferences. > > Saving out the preferences to a text file would save quite > the headache. > > Jonathan Williamson > http://www.montagestudio.org > > > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:22 PM, <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > > It'll be great if default settings or user > preferences, could be saved in > > a text file instead of include everything in a blend > file. > > > > It has happened to me a lot of times, that I tweaked > something in the > > interface and then press CTRL+U or Save Settings, > which lead to next time > > I open Blender it loads the thousands samurais I was > animating in my shot > > when I saved the particular preference. > > > > I know I'm stupid to do that, but usually you realized > a particular > > preference WHILE working, so it makes sense to me that > settings could be > > saved separately from the current blend file. > > > > Maybe now that everything is pythonized this is not a > hard task to > > accomplish ? Maybe it's been already discussed here ? > > > > Thanks in advance ! > > > > malefico. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bf-committers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
