Hello CaLViN,
>> A bad idea, it could make multiuser setups much more complicated. Just
>> like in Mozilla it is ;).
> I'm not sure how this would make multiuser complicated. Every user can
> have his own complete directory, or only his won config files and
> mailbase. Since every user has his own desktop icons, every one can
> have his own shortcut to his install. This is much cleaner and easier
> to maintain then different registry setting.
I think about different users through different Windows profiles. In
this case every profile has its own HKEY_CURRENT_USER branch in which
TB stores it's settings. Thus TB doesn't require any additional steps
to set up for multiple users (except for applying default
configuration for a new user (if it's desired), which can be easily
done by mounting NTUSER.DAT file from "Default user" profile in
Regedt32 and importing a .reg file. Frankly this would be even easier
if TB first looked for config in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and then in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER, where the former one would have preference over the
first one.
With separate files it's a bit troublesome when installing the system
and setting up config for all the profiles of different people. I did
that with Operao once. And with Mozilla (some older version, something
around 1.0) it was a real pain, since it writes absolute path
somewhere in the profile and it didn't work on my system, because I
have roaming profiles moving over LAN, and on PDC (Primary Domain
Controller) the folder for user profiles is changed from default
c:\Documents and Settings to something else.
> Anyway, then make it an option. _I_ do need mobility, and not
> multi-user (if I did, I would give every user his own stick with The
> Bat). And the respones here show that some other people seem to be
> interested as well...
Yes, this is a fair approach and has it's benefits. I've seen it in
Notetab editor and it worked very nicely. Only some things should be
thinked about: if there are both registry and ini setting which one
should have priority? Also how about when user changes his mind about
where to store configuration: it should be rewritten in new place, but
then should it also stay in the old place, but with a lower priority?
Regards,
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