Paolo Cignoni writes ("Re: Bug#426581: meshlab - anyone still working on this"): > We use QT with QSettings mechanism for saving config files in a portable way
Can these files be written other than by Qt ? Our configuration management systems often need to write to configuration in situations where the application in question is not available. Often there will not be a graphical display and sometimes not even a user to interact with (eg, preloading for automated operating system installs). > (i would like to avoid to put any OS specific code inside meshlab) I understand that view. If you make a hook that we can use to control the behaviour, we can happily add any necessary Debian-specific code to our version. > The mechanism i am going to implement is the following > An asking dialog popup at first run. > The result of the dialog will be saved in a persistent place using qsettings. > If this value is already set No dialog will never popup (so an > installer can set these values before first run) I think this isn't the right answer for Debian. We wouldn't want it popping up its own dialogues. But it sounds like it would provide a place for us to plumb in our own configuration. So if you do it that way then that's fine by us but we will adjust the configuration arrangements a bit for our users. I hope that's OK with you. The beauty of Free Software is that we can all have the version we want. Regards, Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]