Stefan Seifert wrote: > Josh Babcock wrote: > >> I don't have a problem with fg putting stuff into my preferences.xml, >> that is a pretty common practice with configuration software. The >> problem is the stuff it took out. >> >> And to add insult to injury, the idea of persistent configuration >> changes is good, but it looks like I can't take advantage of it unless I >> give up my custom configuration. >> > > > You already can. Just rename your custom config to myprefs.xml and start > fgfs with --config=~/.fgfs/myprefs.xml. > FG would still use the ~/.fgfs/preferences.xml for options saving. > > Sorry, that I caused you trouble. I derived the name from the global > preferences.xml and did not give much thought about it, as I didn't > think the code would be included so soon. Nowadays I'd probably call it > ~/.fgfs/options-autosave.xml so chance of clashing with existing files > should be negligible. > > Oh, and one can edit that file manually: all properties that get loaded > from there get their userarchive flag set, so they are written back on > exit. But their value will be the last value they got in the running > program, so this is mainly useful, if one wants to have additional > properties saved (for example radio settings). > > Nine > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log > files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel >
Ok, that sounds like a plan. I was also unaware of the userarchive attribute. Sorry if I came off as rude, but it came as a bit of a shock to me. Josh ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
