This would be nice for Mac users as they cannot create shortcuts with command line options, unlike in Windows. Instead, they have to be passed to the application every time, which means always opening Chromium through Terminal. If this is implemented, though, should we not persist some flags (like --single-process and --disable-sandbox)? There was a recent discussion on chromium-dev about putting up an infobar for some of these options.
That said, I'm not sure persisting command line flags automatically is a good idea. For example, if I wanted to run with --log-level 0 one time, I wouldn't want that enabled every future time I run Chromium. To disable a flag, the user would need to know the default value, which she may not know. rsesek / @chromium.org On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Mohamed Mansour <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, first, I want to say Merry Christmas :) > > We have many command line switches in Chromium that many users would like > to have switched on every time. And managing them using registry or even > modifying the shortcut directly doesn't always work (Windows7) and its very > tedious. Is their any argument not allowing command line options to be > persisted in the Preferences file? There is even a limit on how many > arguments you can put that small Shortcut Properties dialog which makes it > even more unusable. > > Many users on the forums, would always like to run specific command line > switches, many of them run more than 1, some of them turn on ~5. Can't we > just include another pref name that we name "switches" that users can put > whatever they want inside that? > > That will make many people happy. Since the UI team doesn't like to add > more customizable preferences in the UI, this would be the next simplest > place to tell users to customize a couple of stuff without affecting the UI > at all. > > -Mohamed Mansour > > -- > Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] > View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: > http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -- Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev
