On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Michael Petch <[email protected]> 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. > > Michael > I am with you. >From time to time I like to go on the 'trial path'. Messing around with settings to see what consequences there are.
So now I have a gnubgautorc_mine. Ready to overwrite the auto-saved gnubgautorc. so I can reset GNU backgammon to my default settings. Kind of a hustle. I understand the frustration of new gnubg users with the previous 'Save Settings'. But it should be possible to have a choice. With or without auto-save. A simple command would be sufficient. N. -- "He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -Jim Elliot _______________________________________________ Bug-gnubg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg
