On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Martin Spott <martin.sp...@mgras.net>wrote:
> Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> > * Gerard Robin -- Saturday 14 February 2009:
> >> Log Message:
> >> withdraw the "game coat"
> >
> >> + <environment>
> >> + <wildfire>
> >> + <fire-on-crash type="bool" >false</fire-on-crash>
> >> + </wildfire>
> >> + </environment>
> >
> >
> > AIRCRAFT MUST *NOT* CHANGE SYSTEM SETTING!
> >
> > This setting disqualifies the F8 for inclusion in a release.
> > Oh, well. Why do I always have to complain?! Maybe everyone
> > else doesn't care about cleanliness and a sane concept,
> > anyway. Sigh ...
>
> Well, you should realize that FlightGear still is (fortunately) not
> your private project. If this sort of 'gaming' setting is being forced
> upon users and/or aircraft developers, then you should not feel
> surprised if someone's going to work around it.
> This is not about a "sane concept", this is simply a case of MF being
> totally agnostic about other people's experience and preferences.
>
> So, before using strong words, please consider opening your eyes,
No I think Melchior is justified (as occasionally can be the case) :-)
here. The aircraft config is the wrong place to put this sort of setting.
An aircraft config file is the wrong place to set global application level
settings.
We could simply default wild fires to off in the preferences.xml file and
that is perhaps the thing to do. What Gerard has done creates a very messy
situation ... maybe not with just one instance.
Regards,
Curt.
--
Curtis Olson: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/
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