Yves Forkl wrote: > After upgrading my installation of XXE from V. 2.8 to V. 2.11, I find > myself confronted to the task of also having to migrate my preferences > settings. > > The upgrade announcement of V. 2.10 (commenting on the user directory > change that occurred then) just said "User preferences are not > automatically migrated from old directory to new one. Please use the > Options dialog box to reconfigure XXE." > > However, it is hard trying to remember which preferences I might have > opted for in earlier times, while having to walk through all of the > available options... > > Instead, I would prefer to merge the older and current versions of the > preferences.properties file by hand (at my own risk, of course.) To > this end, I would have to know: > > 1) The purpose of each property. > > Unfortunately, XXE's properties as found in the user preferences file do > not seem to be documented anywhere with their precise name. So I suggest > systematically including the name of each property in the Online Help's > section on the Options dialog box, where the purpose of each option is > very well described - but without mentioning the exact name of the > corresponding property in the preferences.properties file. Currently, I > can only guess which property might correspond to which option and > experiment with the settings. > > 2) Whether a property has changed its status. > > Preference properties might cease to exist or take new semantics in > the current version of XXE, so simply copying all property settings > from the preferences.properties file of an earlier XXE version might > not be a good idea. > > IMHO, information on a property's "life" should be included in change > logs or go into the Options descriptions of the Online Help.
You are, of course, right. We'll do what you suggest in next release (V3 -- end of this month).
