On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:27:27PM +0200, Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 08:46:37AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 02:57:26PM +0200, Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > was heard to say: > > > I wonder if it would not be possible to save only modified > > > preferences, so that settings that the user never changed get the new > > > default whenever it gets changed. That'd probably be a new wishlist > > > item :) > > > > It's mostly a question of how you want to surprise the user. If you > > only save modified preferences, then when the user has specifically set > > an option to something that happens to be the default, or when the > > default is changed to match their preferences, changing the default will > > suddenly change a preference the user explicitly selected. > > No :) If only modified prefs are saved, the new defaults will only be > selected for settings the user never modified.
But the user has modified the settings back to the defaults, so they aren't modified any more. If the "modifiedness" is sticky, I don't see how this differs from current behavior? For reference, here's my ~/.aptitude/config: aptitude ""; aptitude::Keep-Unused-Pattern ""; aptitude::Delete-Unused-Pattern ""; aptitude::UI ""; aptitude::UI::Menubar-Autohide "false"; aptitude::UI::Minibuf-Prompts "false"; aptitude::UI::Advance-On-Action "true"; aptitude::UI::Pause-After-Download "OnlyIfError"; aptitude::UI::Minibuf-Download-Bar "false"; aptitude::UI::Incremental-Search "true"; aptitude::UI::Package-Display-Format "%c%a%M%S %p %Z %t %v %V"; aptitude::Recommends-Important ""; APT ""; APT::Install-Recommends "true"; All of these are settings that I've modified interactively in the past; aptitude knows about a lot of settings that aren't mentioned anywhere there. > Maybe with such a mechanism, it would be useful to have a "reset to > default" key binding. There is a "Revert options" menu option, to do just this. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
